June 15, 2015 0 Why Some Drug Addicts Get their Heroin Addiction Treatments From Their Drug Dealers A heroin addict — we’ll borrow NPR’s nomenclature and call him “John” — needs help. Maybe [...]
June 12, 2015 0 The Sentence Sealed With a Kiss The Kiss Cam is a time-honored tradition of American sporting events. During time outs and other stoppages of [...]
June 11, 2015 0 Australia’s Pink-Like-Bubble Gum Lake The picture above is of a real lake. The picture hasn’t been Photoshopped or otherwise materially [...]
June 10, 2015 0 Why You Can’t Buy a Car on Nissan.com Imagine you’re a small-town entrepreneur, looking to build a local business. You may end up using your [...]
June 9, 2015 0 The Broken Heart Drug Charles Schulz, the creator of the iconic comic strip Peanuts, saw the stripe’s protagonist, Charlie [...]
June 8, 2015 0 How People Who are Blind Play Baseball Baseball, like many other sports, requires good hand-eye coordination. This is especially true if [...]
June 5, 2015 0 The Weekender: June 5, 2015 1) “House of Secrets” (The New Yorker, 28 minutes, June 2015). Subhead: “Who owns [...]
June 4, 2015 0 How the Aurora Borealis Almost Sent Humanity Over the Brink On October 27, 1962, the world held its collective breath as Cold War tension between the United States and [...]
June 3, 2015 0 The Great Bread Squeezing Crime Spree of the Late 1990s It began in 1997. Grocery stores in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — about 45 miles from Philadelphia [...]
June 2, 2015 0 How to Get a Good Cry In When In Japan Crying, many people believe, can be cathartic — a good way to relieve stress and let other emotions [...]