You probably first learned about opportunity cost sitting in your high school economics class, while your teacher made an analogy that involved gum and ice cream. The concept is simple: when you make a choice to do something, you give up an opportunity to do something else valuable.

As kids, our time in front of the TV is limited to increments as decided by our parents. As adults, we’ve taken a few liberties on those previously-determined TV allowances, and technology hasn’t made it any easier to stay away. Now that television is accessible on almost every device we own, it’s virtually impossible to avoid TV-generated brain rot.

The 83rd Academy Awards were given to the top movies of the year on Monday night. Did the top honors go to the movies that did the best at the box office? This infographic lists the top grossing movies along with how many Oscars each movie won. See and The Oscars versus the Super Bowl infographic.

The Galactic Empire was an authoritarian government that used fear to rule the galaxy. To maintain order and control, the Empire built a series of Death Stars, moon-sized battle stations with lasers that could destroy planets. Throughout the Star Wars films, two Death Stars are built, the first is completed and later destroyed and the second is under construction when it’s blown up.

Two of television’s most beloved annual events are the Super Bowl and the Oscars. But how does one event, which culminates the football season, stack up against the other, which celebrates excellence in film? Both events came from (relatively) humble roots. Super Bowl one, held in 1967, had a ticket price of $10 and an attendance of about 61, 946. The first Oscars, held in 1929, had a ticket price of $5 and was attended by 250 people. (If you’re [...]

The ability to watch your favorite TV show online or share popular videos from YouTube are recent trends, only introduced during the last decade. However, the growt of Internet TV and online video are skyrocketing as we become more connected and are given the ability to save money by watching TV online. 2011 signals the year that many will finally bring these technologies to our living room television sets. Deals compare the best technologies to help you stay connected on [...]

If we’ve learned anything from horror movies, it’s important to keep your head and use common sense. If you’re lacking in that department, don’t worry, we have you covered. Here’s everything you need to know if you hear something go bump in the night.

An Infographic looking at the battle between Google, Apple and other firms for Web TV supremacy.

Here’s a look at a collection of films with extraordinarily high body counts and their relationships to genre, era and actors with highest career kills.

The cast of The Expendables was pretty killtastic to begin with. We saw this much in original Expendables Body Count Infographic. So how do you make Expendables 2 even more killtastic? By upping the ante on the kill counts, of course.