March 2, 2017 0 The Boy Who Captured the Wind The nation of Malawi is located in southern Africa, toward the east of the continent but landlocked, [...]
March 1, 2017 0 How to Claim Antarctica Antarctica is unlike any other place on Earth. You can’t grow much of anything there, it’s really [...]
February 28, 2017 0 The Park at the Bottom of the Lake The image above (via) is of a bridge, and not a very good one at that. While it appears to transverse a tiny [...]
February 27, 2017 0 Why People Originally Didn’t “Like” Cigarettes Pictured above are Wilma and Fred Flintstone, the starring characters of The Flintstones cartoon series. The [...]
February 24, 2017 0 The Failed Attempt to Create a Ten Hour Day There are 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week, and (roughly) 365 days in a year. There are 60 minutes in [...]
February 23, 2017 0 The Man Who Ran For Laughs and Won Pictured above is a man named Vermin Supreme. He’s wearing a boot on his head during a press [...]
February 22, 2017 0 How Cows Mooved Through Manhattan Yesterday, as seen above (via), the city of New York was greeted by an unexpected pedestrian — a cow. [...]
February 21, 2017 0 Ele-chicken-city Street lights are amazing. When it’s light out, they turn off. At night, though, on they go! It’s [...]
February 17, 2017 0 The Weekender, February 17, 2017 1) “The Darkest Town In America” (FiveThirtyEight, 20 minutes, February 2017). About 200 people [...]
February 16, 2017 0 The Real Cost of Fake War In war, things blow up — ships, airplanes, buildings, etc. — and those things cost money. When we [...]