Written by: Daniel Kwak Researched by: Adam Gottlieb Edited by: Kirk Strohman Managing Editor: Lauren E. Trent The threat of piracy has been around as long as ships have been carrying goods across water. Recent events on the high seas show that the days of dramatic attacks and heroic rescues live on today, sans eye-patches [...]

Written by: Casey Sanders Researched by: Ed Bushnell Managing Editor: Brady Iandiorio A batter digs into the soft brown dirt to face down a pitcher throwing a ball at nearly 100 miles per hour. A halfback takes a football and runs full-charge into players looking to hit him with the same physical force of a [...]

Written by: Brady Iandiorio Researched by: Tracy Frazier and Steve Glista Edited by: Jay D. Hall Managing Editor: Kirk Strohman Internet piracy doesn’t have the pedigree of the swashbucklers of old nor does it have the grimness of present day pirates. And soon it may lose one of its largest purveyors. The Pirate Bay is [...]

Written by: Matt Schroettnig Researched by: Darci G. Van Duzer Edited by: Eric Wasik Managing Editor: Amy E. Seely Is that seven million books in your pocket… or are you just happy to see me? Imagine a world in which the Library of Alexandria survived, intact, to the present day. Charged with collecting all of [...]