November 25, 2013 0 In the Swing of Things The city of Banos de Agua Santa is located in central Ecuador and, because of its proximity to the Amazon [...]
November 21, 2013 0 Blue Light Special On February 25, 2010, two female doctors were in a car accident in Russia. They were traveling in the middle [...]
November 20, 2013 0 The Sun Never Rises Pictured above is the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a now 50 year-old building gracing [...]
November 19, 2013 0 The Loneliest Number In 1812, Spain instituted something called the Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, or the Spanish Christmas [...]
November 18, 2013 0 Mr. HeadsetsDotCom If you’re looking to save a few bucks and don’t really care too much about your [...]
November 15, 2013 0 A Boy Named Sue What do Steve Jobs, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, the Eiffel Tower, Pluto, and the entire [...]
November 14, 2013 0 Balloonacy There’s something inherently fun about trying to set a new world record, especially if doing so as a [...]
November 13, 2013 0 Operator Unknown Get a traffic or parking ticket and it will probably bother you for the rest of the day. Anecdotally, these [...]
November 12, 2013 0 Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb Bomb threats as hoaxes are, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. In recent weeks, for example, a man called [...]
November 11, 2013 0 Flopping Fast A gigaflop is a billion — one thousand millions — flops. A flop is a “floating point [...]