Can you imagine where we'd be if our parents grew up watching Avatar instead of Star Wars?

Watson Adventures, a nationwide scavenger hunt group, is coming to the Franklin Institute with a brain-teasing hunt that revolves around a string of murders strangely linked to a machine constructed by Benjamin Franklin and the infamous Freemasons.

While Philly NetSquared hosts up to 60 people at their monthly meet-ups, Boothe and Horwitz will stream the event live, too — an arrangement that isn't necessarily bleeding-edge, but it works to their advantage.

"Genealogy, which was really a complacent field, underwent two revolutions through the years," Shawker says. "The first was the Internet and the second was the use of DNA testing for genealogy — but the science is somewhat difficult."

"Philly doesn't have the platform for companies to show off their products. I've seen some companies go to other cities for their [product] launches. We're putting a stop to this right now."

Tthe sheer joy of being under the same roof as a signed picture of Burt Ward and Adam West as Batman and Robin isn't what's important.

Since the late '60s, bees and their hives have been disappearing at an alarming rate, according to 32-year beekeeping expert Cliff Sunflower. He says we've lost 32 percent of the bees that were around when he started keeping.

One of the brightest inventors of all time is probably better known as the namesake of a bad hair-metal band than the genius he is.