July 5, 2012 0 D-Day’s Doomed Dry Run On June 6, 1944 — D-Day — the fate of World War II hung in the balance as Allied forces attempted to [...]
July 3, 2012 0 Seeing Eye Mini-Horse Guide dogs — sometimes referred to as seeing eye dogs — have been assisting disabled people for [...]
July 2, 2012 0 Born on the Second of July… or August “In Congress, July 4, 1776,” begins the Declaration of Independence, pictured above, “a [...]
June 29, 2012 0 How a Virtual Plague Helped Epidemiologists Save Lives in the Real World When we think of pandemics, we think of the Black Death, yellow fever, typhoid, or, in more recent times, the [...]
June 28, 2012 0 Fordlandia Before World War II, most automobile tires were made from natural rubber — latex collected from rubber [...]
June 27, 2012 0 Turning Off Niagara Falls Niagara Falls is a set of three waterfalls on the United States/Canada border. Collectively, they have the [...]
June 26, 2012 0 San Diego’s Frozen Zoo Playing home to over 3,500 animals over a 100 acre campus, the San Diego Zoo is one of the world’s [...]
June 25, 2012 0 Umbrella Lottery Flip a coin. There’s a 50% chance it will come up heads. Roll a six-sided die, and you have about a 33% [...]
June 22, 2012 0 E.T.? No Going Home The Solar System is, in the greater scheme of things, really, really tiny. You may not be able to see it from [...]
June 21, 2012 0 The Buzzer Pskov, Russia, is located about a dozen miles off the Estonian border and is home to about 200,000 people. It [...]