March 10, 2017 0 The Weekender, March 9, 2017 1) “The Curse of the Bahai Emerald” (Wired, 27 minutes, March 2017). Thanks to two readers, Obi [...]
March 9, 2017 0 Canada’s Not My Fault Button On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. [...]
March 8, 2017 0 The Maddening Reason Why Your Male Coworker May Be Off Next Week This coming Sunday is a big one for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (better known as the NCAA). [...]
March 7, 2017 0 The Duel That Kind of Wasn’t On July 11, 1804, the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel in [...]
March 6, 2017 0 Why There are Still Borders in Malaysia In 1971, a pair of brothers named Tom and Louis Borders started a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. That [...]
March 2, 2017 0 The Boy Who Captured the Wind The nation of Malawi is located in southern Africa, toward the east of the continent but landlocked, [...]
March 1, 2017 0 How to Claim Antarctica Antarctica is unlike any other place on Earth. You can’t grow much of anything there, it’s really [...]
February 28, 2017 0 The Park at the Bottom of the Lake The image above (via) is of a bridge, and not a very good one at that. While it appears to transverse a tiny [...]
February 27, 2017 0 Why People Originally Didn’t “Like” Cigarettes Pictured above are Wilma and Fred Flintstone, the starring characters of The Flintstones cartoon series. The [...]
February 24, 2017 0 The Failed Attempt to Create a Ten Hour Day There are 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week, and (roughly) 365 days in a year. There are 60 minutes in [...]