Cody Taylor

Super Bowl Sunday comes just once a year. The only thing that counts is how you watch the game.

The “Notorious” screenwriter is attached to adapt Bill Adler’s “Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC

A sofa-sized statue of the shoe was unveiled Thursday in Tikrit, the hometown of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Baghdad-based artist Laith al-Amari described the fiberglass-and-copper work as a tribute to the pride of the Iraqi people. The statue is inscribed with a poem honoring Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw the shoe.

The world’s largest, most powerful particle smasher probably won’t generate any planet-gobbling black holes, according to a new analysis.That’s contrary to suggestions in a news article Wednesday that invoked a possible doomsday scenario and said black holes created by the collider could stick around longer than predicted.

Astronomers have found a planet with a galactic case of hot flashes. In just six hours, this planet four times the size of Jupiter heats up by more than 1,200 degrees, according to a study published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

“He’s encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks,” the caller phoned to tell this reporter. It turns out that this person last week was playing hockey on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, he said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

In Europe, Pirate Parties have quite a following, especially in Sweden where a political scientist recently described them as a “classic civil right movement”. The U.S. Pirate Party hopes to replicate some of this success, and officially launched in California today, the home of the movie industry.

Despite calls from the public, pressure groups and ISPs, the New Zealand government has refused to withdraw the planned Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, meaning that those simply accused of file-sharing are disconnected from the Internet.

Proposals to combat global warming by sowing the sea with iron to promote carbon-gobbling plankton may be badly overblown, study says. Ocean fertilisation has ignited fierce scientific controversy, with supporters saying these schemes could stave off damaging climate change and critics warning that swathes of ocean may turn stagnant or acidic.

The more “wired” a hospital is, the lower its rate of patient deaths and complications, a new study finds. Not only do wired hospitals save lives, but automating hospital information systems also saves centers money.