August 8, 2017 0 The Never-Built Airport That Was Never Intended to be Used Anyway On November 4, 1968, a National Airlines flight from New Orleans en route to Miami was hijacked and diverted [...]
August 7, 2017 0 A Berry Loopy Lawsuit In 1963, the Quaker Oats Company introduced the world to Cap’n Crunch, a sugar cereal and its [...]
August 4, 2017 0 The Weekender, August 4, 2017 1) “The Many Lives of Pauli Murray” (The New Yorker, 21 minutes, April 2017). The subhead: [...]
August 2, 2017 0 The Balloon Expedition to the North Pole That Was a Bust The North Pole isn’t a good place to visit — it’s cold, hard to get to, and there’s [...]
August 1, 2017 0 The Poop Collector We all have different hobbies. Some of us like to play golf, others enjoy cooking, still others write trivia [...]
July 31, 2017 0 Why We Wake Up With Crusty Eyes They go by many names — crusties, eye boogers, sleep dust, goop, or sometimes simply [...]
July 28, 2017 0 The Weekender, July 28, 2017 1) “The Children of Strangers” (New Yorker, 45 minutes, August 2015). The subhead: “Sue [...]
July 26, 2017 0 The Very Lost Wallet On February 12, 2005, a man from Colorado named Ricardo Peña found someone else’s wallet. [...]
July 25, 2017 0 Why Barns are Red Close your eyes and picture a farm, and you’ll probably imagine cows, pigs, fields of various things, [...]
July 24, 2017 0 The Number That’s Illegal to Share There are lots of numbers out there — an infinite amount, in fact. We can talk about almost all of [...]