July 15, 2019 0 Why Isn’t This Tennis Ball Bouncing? On January 21, 2011, Maria Sharapova and Julia Goerges faced off in the Australian Open. Sharapova won in [...]
July 12, 2019 0 The Weekender, July 12, 2019 1) “New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered.” (Mother Jones, 17 minutes, July 2017). The phrase [...]
July 10, 2019 0 Why Do Bats Sleep Upside Down? In general, it’s easier to do everything right side up. That’s why it’s called “right side up,” [...]
July 9, 2019 0 Badge Boys, Badge Boys, Whatchu Gonna Do? If you want to get yourself in trouble, here’s an easy way to do so. First, go on eBay and get yourself a [...]
July 8, 2019 0 How a Texas Farm Helps Explore Space Smithville, Texas is located on the outskirts of Austin and is home to about 3,000 people. In December of [...]
July 3, 2019 0 The Weekender, July 3, 2019 1) “Subway Got Too Big. Franchisees Paid a Price” (New York Times, 14 minutes, June 2019). The [...]
July 2, 2019 0 How Four Dollars Can Unlock American History In 1989, a man whose name was never made public was at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, about an [...]
July 1, 2019 0 When Yellow Cars Became Protest Vehicles If you can conjure a mental image of an idyllic English village, chances are it resembles something like the [...]
June 28, 2019 0 The Weekender, June 28, 2019 1) “The man who stayed late: The Watergate story you’ve never heard” (Los Angeles Daily News, 8 [...]
June 26, 2019 0 The Reverse Beer Delivery To consumers, supply chains are typically invisible. We don’t really care about how the auto manufacturer [...]