April 5, 2011 0 The Last Jew in Afghanistan There are, world-wide, only about 13 million Jews — a number totaling less than half the population of [...]
April 4, 2011 0 The Earth’s Bulls-Eye The image above, taken from Wikipedia, is a sattelite image. But it is not of the Great Red Spot of [...]
April 1, 2011 0 November Fools Somewhere tonight, a group of teenagers will order pizza. A few pizzas, in fact, probably [...]
March 31, 2011 0 The Babe’s Lost Homers In 1919, Babe Ruth — in his last season with the Red Sox — slugged 29 home runs. This was a new [...]
March 30, 2011 0 The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina’s parents were worried. Lina, one of nine children in this poor family of the Peruvian [...]
March 29, 2011 0 Marooned on the Moon Sometimes, the grandest plans go awry. And because of that, we often plan for the [...]
March 28, 2011 0 The Phantom Menace During World War II, Americans of many different backgrounds and experience sets were drafted into the armed [...]
March 28, 2011 0 Mite Be a Bad Idea A few millennia ago, in ancient Egypt, King Tutankhamun had an elaborate, gold gilded wooden bed (seen here, [...]
March 25, 2011 0 Prawo Jazdy: Ireland’s Worst Driver Fifty tickets. Everything from reckless driving and speeding to parking illegally. All in Ireland, over [...]
March 24, 2011 0 The Boat in the Middle of Nowhere If there is a middle of nowhere, it is Bouvet Island, a 19 square mile piece of land in the South Atlantic, [...]