Double-decker bus tours in New York aren’t limited to Times Square, as a tour bus company promises to provide “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO.’” Real Bronx Tours takes tourists from Europe and Australia through the Bronx to give them a glimpse of what life is like for NYC’s impoverished. The tour [...]

When you think of Abercrombie & Fitch, you most likely think of ugly clothes run by people with an even uglier attitude. Now the clothing company is looking to do some damage control. From saying they don’t want fat people wearing their clothes to preferring to burn clothes that don’t sell instead of donating them [...]

If you thought last year’s hurricane season was bad with the massive Hurricane Sandy, you’re not going to want to read the rest of this article. According to USA Today, the federal government is expecting nearly double the average amount of hurricanes this season. Based on the past three decades, six hurricanes form in the [...]

Some world games have spelled out success for the Karnik brothers to the tune of cash prizes and even a trip to the Galapagos Islands. Years of studying, hide-and-seek using an atlas and other worldly games helped transform the kids into geography wizards, which paid off when 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik won the National Geographic Bee [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what the tens of thousands of planes traveling all over the world look like from space, you’re in luck! Michael Markieta, who works for engineering and design firm Arup, utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in order to collect data and depict the 58,000 or so planes traveling everyday, represented by streams [...]

A warehouse worker in Jersey City, New Jersey, was hospitalized after he was almost crushed to death by nearly a ton of — get this — pineapples. Don’t cue the Kevin Hart sound byte just yet, the 39-year-old warehouse worker at 107 West Side Ave. in Jersey City had 1,500 pounds of pineapples fall on him. [...]