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Rival executive says Texas Rangers in the market for NY Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey

Twenty-four hours after R.A. Dickey expressed frustration with contract negotiations at the Mets' holiday party, and team officials voiced private disapproval over the timing of Dickey's comments, the... read more

AfterEllen.com Huddle: Celebrity doppelgängers

There are some celebrities that look so much alike I could easily confuse them. Like every week when I watch Game of Thrones, I can’t believe Emilia Clarke and Piper Perabo aren’t the same person. At ... read more

Data Doppelgängers and the Uncanny Valley of Personalization

This goes beyond creepy, and even beyond the sense of being watched. We’ve wandered into the uncanny valley. Since the 1970s, theorists have used the term "uncanny valley" to describe the unsettling f... read more

Celebrity doubles from Miley Cyrus to Katy Perry revealed

If you aren't a star then you can always attempt to look like one - as this array of celebrity lookalikes prove. They even appear to be nearly as popular as their celebrity counterparts, with some rac... read more

Passengers stranded as tropical storm hits S China

SANYA, Hainan - Tropical storm Bebinca has disrupted 147 flights and left more than 8,000 passengers stranded in the airport after it hit coastal regions in south China at noon. As of 10 pm Saturday, ... read more

Flint Official Allegedly Says ‘N**gers Not Paying Bills’ Caused Water Crisis [VIDEO]

A Flint official suggested in May that the root cause of last year’s Flint water crisis was that black people refused to pay their water bills, according to a video obtained by a Michigan-based activi... read more

Harry and Meghan Officially Have Doppelgängers

You know that moment when you're casually searching for a picture of Meghan Markle and suddenly you spot a couple that looks almost exactly like Meghan and Harry? Yep, same. An unidentified couple was ... read more

‘Where Is Twin Peaks?’ Is the New ‘Who Killed Laura Palmer?’

I don’t have any answers. I don’t have any crackpot theories for why Dr. Jacoby is spray-painting shovels, or how Dougie is manufactured, or why the Black Lodge seems to invoke something of a tiebreak... read more

Coal Seam Gas and fugitive emissions

However, as an earlier response to a question by Milne to Senator Penny Wong makes clear, Wilkenfeld’s report was an analysis of NGERS data, not an independent data-collection exercise – and, at least ... read more

Plane hit by bird sparks emergency

An Air China flight was forced to return to the airport after being hit by a flying bird, leaving a huge dent in the front of the plane on Tuesday morning. Flight CA4307, departing from Chengdu, was e... read more

Why Are There So Many Doppelgängers in Pop Culture Right Now?

In last Sunday’s penultimate installment of The Leftovers, Justin Theroux’s Kevin Garvey returned to the netherworld he first entered in last season’s “International Assassin” and came face-to-face wi... read more