Remote Town Uses Sheep to Generate Google Street View Images

Google StreetView, the virtual tool that allows users to view eye-level images of a location defined on Google Maps, extends to cover many parts of the ...

Priceless Pearl Found in Nearly Discarded Clam

Jill Carattini's article Transfigured tells the story of a priceless discovery:

Barbara Krensavage insisted that clams are not a regular part of her diet. ...

Basketball's Perfect Surface hasn't Changed in Over A Century

As the NBA gears up for the playoffs (right on the heels of college basketball's March Madness), there was an interesting article about one thing about ...

Yearly Boring Conference Finds Joy in the Ordinary

Did you know there's a conference dedicated to boring stuff? It's called, appropriately, the Boring Conference. The conference's website claims it's a ...

Painting Once Worth $26 Now Estimated at $26 Million

If anything epitomizes the current cultural fascination with uncovering antique treasures, it would have to be the recent story about the discovery of ...

Polish Olympian to Auction off Silver Medal

There were many heartwarming stories during the 2016 Olympics. And they just keep coming even after the Olympics are over. ESPN reported Polish Olympian ...

Cheese Bonds

It's a tough financial market out there, especially for small European firms trying to raise capital. That's why Italian cheese-maker 4 Madonne ...

Odd and Priceless Items Sold on EBay

Since it was founded in 1995, more than 3 billion items have been sold through eBay. Some odd products have been sold on eBay, but occasionally something ...

Rare Coin, Rejected by 'Expert,' Sold for $3.1 Million

George Owen Walton was born on May 15, 1907, in Rocky Mount, Virginia. As an estate appraiser, he had first dibs on rare coins, guns, jewelry, stamps, ...

Geologist Finds Valuable Stone Under Land's Surface

In 2007, pro baseball pitcher Matt White had an aunt who had been struggling for years to make ends. When her health started to decline, she was forced ...