The Southern Illinois Miners have announced they sold the contract of Brandon Cunniff to the Atlanta Braves. Cunniff is the 27th player in the history of the Miners organization to have their contract selected by a major league organization and the second in three days (Tyler Stubblefield). He will be joining the Lynchburg Hillcats, the Braves High-A affiliate.
On June 7, the sun belched and made a mess — to the great delight of astronomers. The gargantuan eruption blasted billions of tons of plasma burning at 18,000 degrees F into space. It's the dark filamentous stuff blasting out from the sun's lower right quadrant in the closeup image above, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. And when some of it landed back on the sun's surface, the resulting splatter gave astronomers insights that may help them gain a better understanding of how
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Like a really good book--or a really intense hangover--attending the World Science Festival is an experience that sticks with you. I took the plunge and joined back-to-back sessions, one on the nature of consciousness and other on the meaning of infinity. My head still hasn't fully recovered, and that is exactly what I had hoped for. Consciousness and infinity, more than any other topics (except maybe cosmology, and sure enough that eventually came up too), push at the outer limits of the
Tennis Now's Ted LePak reports on Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov strip teasing the crowd and imitating Maria Sharapova at the Boodles Challenge. Redfoo chases his dreams of playing at the US Open but gets knocked of the qualifier. The BBC's new documentary Andy Murray: The Man Behind the Racquet comes out this weekend, see clips from the trailer.
From hi-tech kitchen gadgets to hot recipes, locally sourced produce and the latest culinary trends, Sophie Morris has all the bookmarks an obsessive foodie needs
WIRED's new animated series takes you inside the secretive world of a slightly askew NSA, with the eccentric Agent Topple, played by John Hodgman, and his young hacker protégé, Nicole Winters.
WIRED's new animated series takes you inside the secretive world of a slightly askew NSA, with the eccentric Agent Topple, played by John Hodgman, and his young hacker protégé, Nicole Winters.
The sun is up and so are we! The Koch Family Children's Museum of Evansville (cMoe) celebrates June 21, 2013 as the "Longest Day of Play" with extended hours from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Make plans to squeeze as much play as possible into the longest day of the year by exploring the 18,000 square feet of hands-on, interactive exhibits at cMoe!
The Evansville Otters are excited to announce that first baseman Andrew Clark had his contract purchased by the New York Yankees this morning and will be reporting to Class AA Trenton. Clark is only one of a handful of Frontier League players to go directly to the AA level.
Firefighters have been battling dozens of blazes across the West today, as a forecast for hot, dry and windy conditions prompted the National Weather Service to designate 186,476 square miles centered on the Four Corners region at critical risk for wildfire. The image above is of the West Fork Complex fire in southwestern Colorado, which has so far burned 8,375 acres. It consists of two wildfires "burning in steep, rugged terrain with large amounts of beetle-killed spruce," according to I
A screen star of the highest order, with a smokey voice and an alluring visage dubbed "The Look"
