December 10, 2014 0 Transposition Position In early December, 2005, a Japanese telecom company called J-Com made its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. [...]
December 9, 2014 0 Door Jammed It was around 2:45 A.M. on November 5, 1995. Then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his wife, Aline, [...]
December 8, 2014 0 Mr. Peeler For the better part of two decades — well into his 70s — Joe Ades followed the same routine. [...]
December 4, 2014 0 Attack of the Killer Potatoes Potato chips are a go-to snack food ever since their creation in the late 19th century. The origin story of [...]
December 3, 2014 0 The Immovable Ladder The Old City of Jerusalem is home to many sites of significance to many different religions. One of [...]
December 2, 2014 0 A Nugget of Speed In the 1950s, a Cornell University professor named Robert C. Baker invented a product which is common, [...]
December 1, 2014 0 Sheepishly Following The Cambridge Dictionary defines “to be like sheep” as follows: “If a group of people are [...]
November 25, 2014 0 Turkey Basters About 60 hours from now, give or take, most Americans will be eating something involving turkey. For [...]
November 24, 2014 0 Spider Goat, Spider Goat You don’t need to be an arachnologist to know that spiders are capable of spinning incredibly strong [...]
November 21, 2014 0 The Ladder Shop Pictured above is a San Francisco Fire Department truck. If you look carefully — the photo is [...]