September 18, 2013 0 Nopes The story in the paragraph below is false. Fiction. Urban legend. Made up — just not by me. In 1848, [...]
September 17, 2013 0 The Niihau Incident December 7, 1941 is, of course, Pearl Harbor Day, when the Japanese Imperial Navy struck the American [...]
September 16, 2013 0 An Arm and a Fin At 8’3″ (2.51 m), Sultan Kosen of Turkey is, according to the Guinness Book of [...]
September 13, 2013 0 Heading in the Right Direction? For much of England’s, Scotland’s, and, after unification, the United Kingdom’s history, [...]
September 12, 2013 0 Slippery When Wet The system is pretty simple. For some reason — a customer spills a drink, a jar of tomato sauce falls [...]
September 10, 2013 0 YOLO, M.D. The medical world is full of acronyms. A patient who is “DNR” has a directive [...]
September 9, 2013 0 The Secret Starbucks There are more than 20,000 Starbucks around the world, and almost all of them have a familiar menu — [...]
September 4, 2013 0 Smell Ya Later Ever since the September 11th attacks, much of the United States has taken a proactive approach [...]
September 3, 2013 0 Filler Buster The rules of the United States Senate allow for unlimited debate — a senator can speak literally [...]
August 30, 2013 0 Chikannery The Japanese term chikan means “street groping,” and the fact that there’s a specific [...]