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 and wooden legs. Earlier [...]

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 small car. 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 a website that has [...]

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 the world’s knowledge, the library [...]