December 9, 2016 0 The Weekender: December 9, 2016 1) “The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive” (1843 Magazine/The Economist, 19 minutes, [...]
December 8, 2016 0 NASA-L Almost all of us have been on, say, a bus or some similarly enclosed space, and — P.U.! — [...]
December 7, 2016 0 Home Sweet Apartment Building When it’s cold outside, many of us would like to find an excuse to stay indoors instead of braving the [...]
December 6, 2016 0 Blanketing the Materinity Wards Take a few minutes, go to Google, type in “baby in hospital blanket,” and click the [...]
December 5, 2016 0 When Your Brain Nose Something Is Missing Keeping your neck straight, look down, then left, then right, and then straight ahead. Did you see anything? [...]
December 2, 2016 0 Ring Around the Lunar Orbit The man pictured above is Ken Mattingly, and he’s been somewhere you haven’t — to the moon. [...]
November 30, 2016 0 Disaster off a Stick In 1905, an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson made a mistake. The Oakland, California kid had been [...]
November 29, 2016 0 The Bromine Gambit Bromine — number 35 on the Periodic Table of the Elements — is, as Wikipedia describes, “a [...]
November 28, 2016 0 That Bites Throughout history, more than 15,000 people have taken the field as Major League Baseball players. Even if [...]
November 23, 2016 0 The Weekender, November 23, 2016 1) “Why Wild Turkeys Hate the Wild” (The Atlantic, 8 minutes, yesterday). Wilderness turned to [...]