March 4, 2015 0 Blowing Smoke In the 1996 film “The Birdcage,” Agador (played by actor Hank Azaria) regularly provided his [...]
March 3, 2015 0 Shanghaied Speech The Chinese government isn’t known for being very freedom-loving — seemingly at a whim, the [...]
March 2, 2015 0 The Greedy Cup The Greek philosopher Pythagoras is credited with changing the history of mathematics, ushering in an entire [...]
February 27, 2015 0 Why Denver Said No to the 1976 Winter Olympics In January of this year, the United States Olympic Committee decided that Boston would be the nation’s [...]
February 26, 2015 0 Shooting Fish Way Over the Barrel Salmon have interesting migration and reproduction habits. They’re born upstream in rivers, in gravel [...]
February 25, 2015 0 The Big Bang Theory, in Theory In the fall of 2007, CBS debuted “The Big Bang Theory,” a sitcom centered around the [...]
February 24, 2015 0 Obtuse and Acute Wikipedia defines “eminent domain” as a power of the government “to take private [...]
February 23, 2015 0 Pop Goes the Kernel Above is an animated gif of a popcorn kernel turning into the movie-time snack most of us enjoy. (If [...]
February 20, 2015 0 The Apple Club As the saying goes, money doesn’t grow on trees. The idiom is a reference to the notion that one [...]
February 19, 2015 0 Stopsicles Red means stop. Green means go. This rule of thumb is something we learn at a young age and it helps us [...]