August 10, 2016 0 A Moist Upsetting Word According to a 2006 article in USA Today, 64% of Americans admit to using the f-word at least occasionally. [...]
August 9, 2016 0 The Shape of Safety Pictured above is a prototype of the de Havilland Comet, developed in the late 1940s. It’s the [...]
August 8, 2016 0 The Thin Red Deer Line On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall began to fall, as thousands of East German citizens poured into West [...]
August 5, 2016 0 The Weekender: August 5, 2016 1) “McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald’s Franchisee ” (Bloomberg, 13 minutes, [...]
August 4, 2016 0 The Man Who Bounced Around A Bit Recently, a man named Luke Aikins did something most of us couldn’t even dare think about — he [...]
August 3, 2016 0 Tanks for the Tea The importance of tea to British culture is hard to overestimate. British drinkers imbibe 165 million cups a [...]
August 1, 2016 0 Just for the Taste of Whatever It Is Let’s say you live in the United States and wanted a Diet Coke. No problem — the Coca-Cola [...]
July 29, 2016 0 The Weekender: July 29, 2016 1) “The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia” (Ars Technica, 33 [...]
July 28, 2016 0 The Lucky Iron Fish Severe fatigue. Dizziness, chest pains, shortness of breath, and headaches. Pregnancy complications, [...]
July 27, 2016 0 Buds But Not Buddies The four bottles on the left, above, are bottles of what an American would call Budweiser. And, if [...]