July 21, 2017 0 The Weekender, July 21, 2017 1) “The Mad Cheese Scientists Fighting to Save the Dairy Industry” (Bloomberg, 12 minutes, July [...]
July 19, 2017 0 The Battle of the Blackest Black Versus the Pinkest Pink Pictured above isn’t the world’s pinkest pink. But that’s only because your computer or [...]
July 18, 2017 0 The Airline that Doesn’t Fly Anywhere The business of commercial airlines is to fly people around the world. That should go without saying. But [...]
July 17, 2017 0 The Lucky License Plate That Wasn’t On August 8, 2008, the world’s focus was on Beijing, China, for Opening Ceremonies of the XXIX [...]
July 14, 2017 0 The Weekender, July 14, 2017 1) “We Aren’t the World” (Pacific Standard, 20 minutes, February 2013). Thanks to reader [...]
July 13, 2017 0 A Profitable Way to Stop Telemarketers In June of 2003, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened the doors to the National Do Not Call Registry, a [...]
July 11, 2017 0 Meet History’s Best Checkers Player In 2011, author Malcolm Gladwell came out with a book titled “Outliers: The Story of Success.” In [...]
July 10, 2017 0 How a Creative Codebreaker Changed the Course of WWII On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. [...]
July 7, 2017 0 The Weekender, July 7, 2017 1) “The Invention of the Slinky” (Priceonomics, 10 minutes, December 2014). It’s much [...]
July 6, 2017 0 Who Was the Fifth Dentist — That Didn’t Recommend Trident? In 1964, the Warner-Lambert Company earned a patent for a brand new product — sugarless chewing gum. [...]