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 [...]
August 29, 2013 0 The Lichen Loophole In 1976, a book titled “Lichen as Pollution Monitors” came out. In 1979, “How to Know the [...]
August 28, 2013 0 Here Comes Santa Claus Every Christmas Eve, children around the world wait for a visitor to arrive through the chimney via [...]
August 27, 2013 0 Panda Diplomacy On August 23, 2013, a giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub at the National Zoo in Washington, [...]
August 26, 2013 0 Get Ready for the Zombie Apocalypse Wikipedia defines “zombies” as “animated corpse[s] raised by magical means, such as [...]
August 23, 2013 0 The First Rickroll In 1987, British singer Rick Astley debuted in the music world with “Never Gonna Give You Up,” [...]
August 22, 2013 0 Children at the Reins Camels may be thought of as slow, lumbering animals that slog through the desert. But they’re [...]
August 21, 2013 0 The Watermelon War On April 15, 1856, a steamboat arrived at a small, four-and-a-half square mile island off the coast of [...]