March 15, 2016 0 The Withdrawn The high school dropout rate in the United States is about 7%; that is, seven in 100 Americans age 16 to 24 [...]
March 11, 2016 0 The Weekender: March 11, 2016 1) “There Will be Netflix on Mars” (Popular Mechanics, 16 minutes, March 2016). There won’t [...]
March 10, 2016 0 VSP The vehicle pictured above looks like a car, probably because it is one — although a smaller-than-usual [...]
March 9, 2016 0 A Scotland Yard’s Foggy Bottom In 1875, two of Edinburgh’s soccer teams —  Heart of Midlothian F.C, and Hibernian F.C. — [...]
March 8, 2016 0 Slaying the Silver Ball Fiorello LaGuardia was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, and, on January 1 of the following year, took [...]
March 7, 2016 0 The Den of Unanimity If you Google “Gir Forest National Park” you’ll probably see the above image in the [...]
March 4, 2016 0 The Measles Mystery In the 1960s, children throughout America began receiving a vaccination for measles. And as the chart above [...]
March 3, 2016 0 They Blue It Ask enough people to describe a stop sign and you’ll get some pretty common answers: it has the word [...]
March 2, 2016 0 You Can Taste the Price The hamburger pictured above is from a fancy restaurant. It costs $17. And it probably tastes good. No, [...]
March 1, 2016 0 The Revolt of the Dancing Grannies The women pictured above are in China. Most of them are age 55 and older and are likely retired. [...]