January 14, 2015 0 The Subterranean Bell If you’ve ever taken a subway in a major city — or if you’ve been anywhere else that large numbers [...]
January 13, 2015 0 Cereal Killers In the late 1800s, a man named John Harvey Kellogg invented the cereal now known as Corn Flakes, and a few [...]
January 12, 2015 0 The Albuquerque of the Far East The video above is a bit more than 30 seconds long. It features a young woman carrying a gold foil bag of [...]
January 9, 2015 0 A Monstrous Disaster English author Mary Shelley first published “Frankenstein” in 1818, the story of a mad scientist (Victor [...]
January 8, 2015 0 The Smallpox Boat For centuries, the smallpox disease claimed the lives of huge numbers of people around the world. In the [...]
January 7, 2015 0 8-6-7-5-3-0-My-y-ine In 1982, Tommy Tutone came out with the song “867-5309/Jenny,” the music video of which [...]
January 6, 2015 0 Inked Red Handed The image above — you can see a slightly larger version here — shows a man named Anthony [...]
January 5, 2015 0 Monosyllabic Culture There are many, many different languages spoken in this world — so many, in fact, that Wikipedia [...]
December 30, 2014 0 Burger Math When it comes to McDonald’s and the company’s innovations, perhaps no one deserves a mention more [...]
December 29, 2014 0 Through the No-Looking Glass Frosted glass — you can see a picture of some here — is a special type of glass which is [...]