NFL POWER RANKINGS: Where Every Team Stands Halfway Through The Season
Another week, another big shake-up on the fringes of the NFL playoff race. All six teams ranked 9th to 14th in our rankings last week lost. The result: A big, heaping clump of teams ranked 10th to...
View ArticleManhattan's Stuyvesant Town Is A Total Mess
The flooding experienced last night in the Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town housing complexes on Manhattan's east side was unprecedented. The waters have receded for now, but devastation left by...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Innovative Companies In The World
Booz & Co. just came out with its annual ranking of the world's 1000 biggest R&D spenders, which includes a survey of more than 700 senior R&D executives asking them what companies are the...
View ArticleFive Psychological Disorders Named After Disney Characters
Remember those bedtime stories that were read to you as a kid, and those Disney movies you watched? Turns out, there are some real psychological disorders and personality types that get their names...
View ArticleA Tour Of The Storm Damage On New York's West Side
After spending the day watching Sandy on the news yesterday, most of us here in Manhattan's West 70s were left feeling fortunate. Aside from a few gusts of wind, and a smattering of rain, we didn't...
View ArticleHere's The Jersey Shore Devastation That Made Chris Christie Get So Emotional
Chris Christie showed his rare emotional side in a series of tweets about the devastation at the Jersey Shore caused by Hurricane Sandy. Now we can see exactly why. The New Jersey Governor's Office...
View ArticleCelebrity Photos From The Frontlines Of Hurricane Sandy
On Monday, celebrities tweeted caution to their mass followings for the upcoming Hurricane in the Northeast. By Tuesday, East Coast-based celebs were posting photos of black outs, fallen trees,...
View ArticleHippos Take Desperate Measures To Get Through Dry Season
It's the end of the dry season in the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest conservation areas in the world, and rain is expected any day. The 21,100-square-mile park is dusty...
View ArticleSamsung's Latest Gadget Turns Your Smartphone Into A Laptop
Galaxy Note II owners, listen up. The Galaxy Note Smart Dock is the latest cool accessory for your phone, turning it into a small-scale laptop by providing loads of accessory ports. Want to type into...
View ArticleThe 20 Highest Grossing Scary Movies Of All Time
Ghosts, haunted homes, murders, blood, and screaming all tend to be common themes in scary movies. But which films have used these elements the most successfully? In honor of Halloween, we thought it...
View ArticleThe 20 Best Cities In America For Trick-Or-Treating This Year
Halloween is here, and kids around the U.S. are eager to fill their buckets and bags with enough candy to last them— well, until the end of the week, we hope. But before they can hit the streets,...
View ArticleThe 20 Cities That Are Most Exposed To Rising Sea Levels
What Hurricane Sandy did to New York could be nothing compared to future storms. An OECD report from a few years ago warned that by 2070, assuming rising sea levels, bigger storms, and continued...
View Article30 NBA Players You Need To Follow On Twitter
Out of all the sports, NBA players are the best at Twitter. Nearly one-third of our 100 best athletes to follow were NBA guys, and they seem to be generally funnier and more active than other...
View Article10 Computer Crooks Who Have Secretly Made Your Life Miserable
Computers don't hack themselves. Even so, the idea of a "hacker" has changed a lot over the years. Back in the early days of the Internet, a hacker was often a genius kid getting himself into trouble....
View ArticleWho Is The More Powerful Dead Brand Icon: Jesus Or Steve Jobs?
Just in time for Halloween, Appinions tracked the 10 most influential brand ambassadors ... from beyond the grave. This list answers the burning question: Who has more commercial influence on Twitter...
View ArticleTen Ways We Can Help Keep NYC From Drowning Under Water
The best scientific evidence shows that global climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), which emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere....
View ArticleAll Of These Cars & Boats Were Destroyed By Sandy
In its voyage up the Atlantic Coast, Hurricane Sandy did a tremendous amount of damage. Heavy rain and wind resulted in flooding, falling trees, and flying debris. All of which proved there was no...
View ArticleThe Depressing Truth About Europe's Youth Unemployment Nightmare
Youth unemployment is rising steadily in the EU as the economic crisis in Europe deepens. The latest data reveals an EU-wide youth unemployment rate of 22.8 percent, up from 21.7 percent a year ago as...
View ArticlePHOTOS: See Goldman Sachs' Tower Surrounded By Seaweed, Post-Sandy
Two days ago, we told you that Goldman Sachs' tower in Jersey City -- the tallest building in new Jersey and home to the bank's tech and back-office operations -- was just inches from being inundated...
View ArticleGeorge Lucas Is Still The Proud Owner Of Skywalker Ranch
George Lucas may have sold the rights to Star Wars, but he's still the proud owner of the 4,700-acre Skywalker Ranch. The director has spent around $100 million developing the impressive property...
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