October 7, 2015 0 The Spaghetti Tree Hoax Money does not grow on trees. Neither do pineapples, for that matter — they grow like this, in case you [...]
October 6, 2015 0 The King Who Received Six Votes Out Of 240,000 The year was 1863 and Greece needed a new king. The problem: its old king, Otto, didn’t leave a [...]
October 5, 2015 0 What to Call Witnesses, According to the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States reconvenes after its summer recess on the first Monday in October. [...]
October 2, 2015 0 How to Land a Plane By Leaving It On February 2, 1970, a local sheriff in Montana arrived on the scene of an accident. But this wasn’t a [...]
October 1, 2015 0 Van Morrison and the Thirty-One Songs about Nothing But a Bad Contract Van Morrison is a legend of the music world. He has won six Grammys, is an inductee into both the the Rock [...]
September 30, 2015 0 Big Mac’ll Make You Jump Jump Two all beef patties. Special sauce. Lettuce. Cheese. Pickles. Onions. On a sesame seed bun. Those words were [...]
September 29, 2015 0 How a Unit Conversion Error Turned an Airplane into a Glider A flight from Montreal to Edmonton is about 1,800 miles or 2,900 kilometers. Those distances are the same, [...]
September 28, 2015 0 How Potatoes Changed the Outcome of a World War II Naval Battle The warship pictured above was the USS O’Bannon, which served in the United States Navy during World [...]
September 25, 2015 0 The Weekender: September 25, 2015 1) “The Avenger” (The New Yorker, 41 minutes, September 2015). The subhead: “After three [...]
September 24, 2015 0 The Temperature-Detecting Trick Our Eyes and Ears Can Play The term “caloric stimulation” sounds like a medical term, probably because it is one. But it has [...]