December 2, 2011 0 I Before E, Except After C Probably every English-speaking person in society once learned a simple law of spelling: “I before E, [...]
December 1, 2011 0 Holistic Holograms Holograms are — or at least, when done in their coolest, best way, can be — three-dimensional [...]
November 30, 2011 0 Sable’s Stable Travel about 150 miles southeast from Halifax, Nova Scotia and you’ll hit something: Sable Island. [...]
November 29, 2011 0 How the Tooth Fairy Helped Change Nuclear Weapons Testing When a young child loses a baby tooth, tradition instructs that we place the tooth under the child’s [...]
November 28, 2011 0 Behind the Music You probably do not recognize the lady pictured above. Her name is Marni Nixon, and she’s had notable [...]
November 23, 2011 0 The Great Emu War After World War I, many Australian soldiers returned home, looking for ways to earn a living. A number of [...]
November 22, 2011 0 Mozart Versus the Pope In the 1630s, Italian composer Gregorio Allegri wrote a composition called the Miserere. Made for two [...]
November 21, 2011 0 Nobody’s Home Small scale innovations occur every day, propagating though our culture and economy organically as more and [...]
November 18, 2011 0 Mickey Mask On December 7, 1941, Japanese pilots bombed Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. The [...]
November 17, 2011 0 Short Temper Kim Jong-il has been ruling North Korea since July of 1994, when he succeeded his father upon the [...]