Bradley Wiggins won biking's biggest this weekend, becoming the first Briton in history to claim first place in the Tour de France. He beat out other bikers by a huge margin of three minutes and twenty-one seconds.
Kathryn Aurora Gray, a Canadian 10-year-old, just became the youngest-ever person to discover a supernova after spotting one in galaxy UGC 3378 while looking with her dad. So? When I was 10 I discovered late-night Cinemax. Where's my medal?
"High powered" science journal Biology Letters is publishing a paper about the way bees use color and space to navigate between flowers. It was written by 25 co-authors, all of whom are between the ages of 8 and 10.
How are you spending you weekends? Gabriel Nderitu, an I.T. specialist in Kenya, has been spending his building an airplane, from scratch, in his backyard. The only question is: Will it fly?
A 12-year-old girl was arrested on Wednesday in Queens, New York as part of a huge NYPD drug bust that nabbed 42 other people. Maybe she was the ringleader! Probably not though, as drug rings are complicated and dangerous organizations.
Meet Kieron Williamson, a seven-year-old kid from Norfolk, England. Like a lot of kids, Kieron likes to paint—landscapes, mostly, using watercolors. The only difference is, Kieron just sold 33 of his paintings—for a total of $200,000.
Athletics are a sore point of failure for Marissa Mayer; the overachieving Google exec recently placed 7,074th of 7,862 in the Portland marathon and dead last in a ski race. But she and her hunky groom ran a half marathon in San Francisco on July 26, and she's getting better (though not that much better).
Who called a freaking holiday right in the middle of the last week of the sales year? Clearly, the in-duh-viduals who run HR aren't on a revenue-based compensation plan. If you're still working the deals and/or deliverables today, know you're not alone: 25,000 readers have hit Valleywag already and it's not even…
