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If you've never seen The Perils of Gwendoline In The Land Of The Yik Yak , then allow me to enlighten you about this glorious moment in the history of exploitation cinema. This soft-core mindbender from the mid-1980s was directed...

Many engineers, mathematicians and physicists who got their start in Belleville will remember Charles "Dewey" Pruitt for his more than 40 years of teaching at what's now Southwestern Illinois College. His children will remember him for instilling in them the...

About 5,000 years ago, societies in ancient Sumeria, China and South America invented writing, and in the millennia since, the ability to read has propelled human intellectual and cultural development, vastly expanding our capacity to learn, create, explore and record...

As the global economic meltdown sent shock waves across the valley, the product designer took the ultimate career leap of faith — he launched a one-man company, Kaiku Design, to make hand-built, eco-friendly and safe wood-based toys for children. "I've...

At the weekend mobile users of the Opera Mini browser were asked to upgrade to a Chinese version. According to the BBC's Beijing Bureau, this version no longer allows access to sites such as Facebook. Previously traffic ran over Opera...

In Robert Wise's 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still , Klaatu (Michael Rennie) seemed peaceful enough; it was his butt-kicking, robot supervisor Gort that drove audiences home with nightmares. In George Pal's 1953 adaptation of the 1898 HG Wells...

Societies around the world have seemingly always celebrated annual harvests. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October and the British have their fall Harvest Festival. Jewish people celebrate Sukkot, the nine-day thanksgiving festival, and the Chinese have an equivalent celebration during...

What's Twitter?' asks China following Obama revelation If the president had talked instead about Jiwai or Fanfou – Twitter's Chinese rivals – China would have been less confused US President Barack Obama greets guests at the Museum of Science and...