December 19, 2016 0 The Tropical Toilets We Love to Visit Pictured below are two photos featuring sand but in two different contexts. The top image is a [...]
December 16, 2016 0 You’ve Got The Right Stuffed In the 2003 book “Bringing Down the House,” author Ben Mezrich tells the story of a team of [...]
December 15, 2016 0 The Korean War on Christmas Christmastime comes with Christmas trees and Christmas lights — both are a way to make a festive time [...]
December 13, 2016 0 The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born Maine in 1807, which is to say that he wasn’t [...]
December 12, 2016 0 Welcome to Temporary Anxiety Given the security measures surrounding modern air travel, it’s virtually impossible to end up on the [...]
December 9, 2016 0 The Weekender: December 9, 2016 1) “The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive” (1843 Magazine/The Economist, 19 minutes, [...]
December 8, 2016 0 NASA-L Almost all of us have been on, say, a bus or some similarly enclosed space, and — P.U.! — [...]
December 7, 2016 0 Home Sweet Apartment Building When it’s cold outside, many of us would like to find an excuse to stay indoors instead of braving the [...]
December 6, 2016 0 Blanketing the Materinity Wards Take a few minutes, go to Google, type in “baby in hospital blanket,” and click the [...]
December 5, 2016 0 When Your Brain Nose Something Is Missing Keeping your neck straight, look down, then left, then right, and then straight ahead. Did you see anything? [...]