March 20, 2017 0 The Red Light With a Very Long Wait The intersection pictured above, via Google Maps (here), is from the German city of Dresden. The vehicle [...]
March 17, 2017 0 The Weekender, March 17, 2017 1) “Escape to Another World” (1843 Magazine, 17 minutes, April 2017). The sub-head: “As [...]
March 16, 2017 0 A Not-So-Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funeral On February 22, 2015, a woman named Noela Rukundo was outside of her home in Melbourne, Australia, waiting [...]
March 15, 2017 0 The Invisible Wall Around Most of Manhattan The photo above (via Slate) looks like a picture of a lamppost and a church steeple against a somewhat cloudy [...]
March 13, 2017 0 The Haircut that Went to War (Maybe) Every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans celebrate their birthday. Some of those birthdays are [...]
March 10, 2017 0 The Weekender, March 9, 2017 1) “The Curse of the Bahai Emerald” (Wired, 27 minutes, March 2017). Thanks to two readers, Obi [...]
March 9, 2017 0 Canada’s Not My Fault Button On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. [...]
March 8, 2017 0 The Maddening Reason Why Your Male Coworker May Be Off Next Week This coming Sunday is a big one for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (better known as the NCAA). [...]
March 7, 2017 0 The Duel That Kind of Wasn’t On July 11, 1804, the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel in [...]
March 6, 2017 0 Why There are Still Borders in Malaysia In 1971, a pair of brothers named Tom and Louis Borders started a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. That [...]