You might say he had a meteoric rise to the top. Or that he took one giant leap for mankind on the career ladder, just like his pal Neil. Or maybe you can just appreciate the hope he can give to camp counselors everywhere who are currently making macrame lanyards and teaching sunburned kids how …

How awesome must it be to watch a show and see your own workplace thrown into the middle of a spooky plotline? I know I looked at my college grocery-store job a little differently once I read Stephen King’s “The Mist.” (I ran a little faster through the creepy storage room where we had to punch in — is that …

We like to think Lucy would’ve found it all pretty funny. In 2009, a 400-pound bronze sculpture of comedian Lucille Ball was installed in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in her childhood hometown of Celoron, New York. But Ball’s friendly Vita-Meta-Vegamin slurping, chocolate-chomping face was almost unrecognizable. This wasn’t sweet, snappy Lucy who always wanted to be in the show. This …

Want to stand in one of the most dangerous places on Earth without leaving home? New virtual-reality video from German magazine Bild and VR content producer Jaunt puts you on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman operating in the Persian Gulf. Whether or not you have a VR headset, you can still spin the videos …

Ramsay Bolton thought of some terrible tortures in “Game of Thrones,” but had he just made Theon walk over a bunch of Legos, he might have broken the poor dude even earlier. As any parent or caretaker of children will attest, stepping on a Lego delivers a specially horrific type of foot pain. Especially if it happens in the middle …

Hey, if anyone knows how to mess things up big time, it’s Dr. Seuss’ legendary Cat in the Hat. The fearless feline announced his candidacy for president this week outside the author’s childhood home in Springfield, Massachusetts, with impish assistants Thing 1 and Thing 2 at his side. Watch out if he wins, America. The cat’s namesake book shows him …

No question, being shot in black and white fits “The Addams Family,” the spooky monstrous crew from the 1960s sitcom. But when Zach Smothers took to his computer to colorize a clip for his YouTube channel Pop Colorture, the newly brightened show just leapt off the screen. “‘The Addams Family’ was produced by the same company that made ‘Green Acres,’ …

So you want to be a corporate marketing person, huh? Here’s the one rule you should recite every day. Call it the “Boaty McBoatface” law. It’s simple, and it could save your job: Do Not Let The Internet Name Your Products. That doesn’t just mean “don’t have an open contest where your serious polar-research vessel can end up carrying a …

Politics have come to Equestria. Republican National Committee Communications Director Sean Spicer cited Twilight Sparkle of the “My Little Pony” franchise Tuesday in defense of Melania Trump’s now-infamous Monday night speech. Appearing on CNN, Spicer said only 70 words of the 2,000-word speech matched the 2008 speech given by now-first lady Michelle Obama. He then went on to pull out …

Science fiction has broken new ground in many classic books and films. The 1968 kiss between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura in a third-season “Star Trek” episode was considered daring at the time because it involved a white man and a black woman. But in a parody video posted Monday to promote Fathom Events’ nationwide showing of “Planet of the …