August 6, 2018 0 Who You Gonna Call? Not This Ghostbuster In 1984, movie fans received in gift in the form of a sci-fi comedy titled Ghostbusters. The film proved [...]
August 3, 2018 0 The Weekender, August 3, 2018 1) “How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions” (Daily Beast, 36 minutes, [...]
August 1, 2018 0 Why You Can’t Visit Liberty’s Torch The Statue of Liberty has been towering over New York Harbor since October 28, 1886. The highest point of the [...]
July 31, 2018 0 The Mirror That Smiles Back While we can see the world around us with our own eyes, we can’t see ourselves. But we have a good [...]
July 30, 2018 0 There’s No Such Thing as a Free T-Shirt Okay, wait: there is, definitely, such a thing as a free t-shirt. (The title, in case you didn’t get [...]
July 27, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 27, 2018 1) “Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. He was everything he was on TV and more.” (Vox, 6 minutes, [...]
July 25, 2018 0 The Far Side Dinosaur If you’re a four-year-old kid, chances are you can name about a billion different dinosaurs — it’s [...]
July 24, 2018 0 The Man Who Was Buried in Paperwork In 1992, a 37-year-old man named Reliu Constantin left Romania for Turkey, hoping to find work to support his [...]
July 23, 2018 0 How a Failed Star Trek Episode Helped Save the Franchise The Star Trek franchise emerged on television screens in 1966 and — well, it wasn’t an overnight [...]
July 20, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 20, 2018 1) “How E-Commerce is Transforming Rural China” (New Yorker, 28 minutes, July 2018). You can also [...]