July 10, 2018 0 Why Ottawa’s Airport is Called YOW Since 1927, Canada’s capital, Ottawa, has been serviced by an airport now known as Ottawa [...]
July 9, 2018 0 How To Fool the World Starting with Two All-Beef Patties International travel can be a bit tricky, at least when it comes to buying things. First, you often have to [...]
July 6, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 6, 2018 1) “Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster. The rogue world of one of [...]
July 5, 2018 0 The Backward American Flag Pictured above is a pretty fantastic image — Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore. It’s [...]
July 3, 2018 0 How Poker (and Boredom) Can Help Solve Murders The days and life of a prison inmate can be tedious — there isn’t much to do, and the scenery [...]
July 2, 2018 0 When the Jazz Didn’t Stop Playing Jazz music is hard to define — it’s often improvisational with no clear path. But you know it [...]
June 29, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 29, 2018 1) “The Counterfeit Queen of Soul” (Smithsonian Magazine, 19 minutes, July 2018). This is the [...]
June 28, 2018 0 The Border-Splitting Hotel That Hid The Resistance On the border of France and Switzerland is the town of La Cure. As suggested by the map above, the words [...]
June 26, 2018 0 The Macroeconomic Madness Behind Extra Cheesy Pizza Domino’s Pizza is one of the world’s best-known fast food chains, despite the fact that during [...]
June 25, 2018 0 Why the National Animal of Scotland is… Wait, Really? If nothing else, Wikipedia is a great place to find lists of things. For example, if you really need to find [...]