September 20, 2017 0 The Mayor Who Tried to Eliminate His Own Job If you want to win an election in the United States (and this is probably true almost everywhere else, too), [...]
September 19, 2017 0 The Dead Man Who Sued to Make Himself Alive Donald E. Miller, Jr. was dead — he died in 1994. Nearly two decades later, very much alive, he stood [...]
September 18, 2017 0 Where “Cold, Hard Cash” is Very Literal Carrying around cash usually isn’t very cumbersome. Bills fit neatly into wallets, unless you have a [...]
September 15, 2017 0 The Weekender, September 15, 2017 1) “The Strangest Sights Cassini Saw: Postcards From Saturn” (NPR, 5-minute video, September [...]
September 14, 2017 0 How a Good Breakfast Helped Create a Sneaker Empire With a market cap (as of this writing) of about $85 billion, Nike is a behemoth in the sportswear and apparel [...]
September 13, 2017 0 What Happens When a Monkey Takes an Awesome Picture of Itself? Pictured above is a monkey. Specifically, it’s a macaque, and one that is smiling– grinning, [...]
September 12, 2017 0 The Power of Being Bored Boredom, in today’s world, is fleeting. Because of our phones — supercomputers, but pocket-sized [...]
September 11, 2017 0 The Squeegee that Saved Lives The September 11 attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. Among the tragedy, though, are stories of [...]
September 8, 2017 0 The Weekender, September 8, 2017 1) “This guy is accused of swindling millions of dollars out of unsuspecting Torontonians ” [...]
September 7, 2017 0 The Million Pound Cough In the mid-to-late 1990s, Sergey Brin and Larry Page were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University, building [...]