December 4, 2012 0 Tall and Unseen The map pictured above was generated from Wikipedia data. (Here’s a much larger version, and [...]
December 3, 2012 0 Swing Vote In 2008, Kevin Costner produced and starred in a movie titled Swing Vote. In the movie, Costner plays a New [...]
November 30, 2012 0 Yam Land The Trobriand Islands are an archipelago, part of Papua New Guinea, about 100 miles northeast of Oceania, [...]
November 29, 2012 0 A Million Years, Give or Take Samuel Pierpont Langley, pictured above, is not a household name, but, if history meandered a little [...]
November 28, 2012 0 Off the Hook Over the last decade or so, cell phones have become as important to our everyday lives as any other object. [...]
November 27, 2012 0 Leaning Out Pictured above is the Elizabeth Tower, home of the famous clock bell, Big Ben. On the left, the angle of the [...]
November 26, 2012 0 Spin It to Win It Imagine you’re at a bar and another patron offers you the following wager. He’s going to flip a [...]
November 21, 2012 0 Brown Friday The day after Thanksgiving has a special moniker in the United States: Black Friday, which is now commonly a [...]
November 20, 2012 0 A Spy’s Doody Espionage can be dirty work. And as American, French, and British spies learned during the Cold War, [...]
November 19, 2012 0 Hoofing It From 1920 through 1933, the sale, manufacturing, and/or transportation of alcohol was unlawful in the United [...]