September 29, 2015 0 How a Unit Conversion Error Turned an Airplane into a Glider A flight from Montreal to Edmonton is about 1,800 miles or 2,900 kilometers. Those distances are the same, [...]
September 28, 2015 0 How Potatoes Changed the Outcome of a World War II Naval Battle The warship pictured above was the USS O’Bannon, which served in the United States Navy during World [...]
September 25, 2015 0 The Weekender: September 25, 2015 1) “The Avenger” (The New Yorker, 41 minutes, September 2015). The subhead: “After three [...]
September 24, 2015 0 The Temperature-Detecting Trick Our Eyes and Ears Can Play The term “caloric stimulation” sounds like a medical term, probably because it is one. But it has [...]
September 22, 2015 0 The Everyday Superheroes at the Elder Care Facility On October 24, 2013, the California Department of Social Services shut down a small elder care facility in [...]
September 21, 2015 0 What Happens When a Convict Doesn’t Actually Go To Prison In 1999, a 22-year-old Missouri man named Cornealious Michael (“Mike”) Anderson held up a Burger [...]
September 18, 2015 0 The Mystery of the Appalachian Bend Three hundred million years ago, the Earth looked a lot different than it did today. We still had oceans and [...]
September 17, 2015 0 The Infrequent Flyer Meal Program “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” That quote — the origins are unknown — [...]
September 16, 2015 0 The Wartime Chocolate Bar You Don’t Want to Eat A typical Hershey’s chocolate bar, pictured above, is 210 calories — and mostly empty ones at that. [...]
September 11, 2015 0 Treemail In the 1971 book The Lorax, the incomparable Dr. Seuss tells the story of an environmentally-conscious [...]