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March 23, 2011 0

One of the more intense topics of U.S. presidential campaigns is the selection of the running mate. The [...]

March 21, 2011 0

Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. The Yeti. All three of these mythic creatures have never, formally, [...]

March 18, 2011 0

The image above is from Wikipedia. It’s an illustration of something called “printer [...]

March 17, 2011 0

The image above is not of a four-leaf clover. It’s of a quartet of bacteria named deinococcus [...]

March 16, 2011 0

On February 22, 1889, Congress passed The Enabling Act of 1889, allowing the areas of Washington, Montana, [...]

March 15, 2011 0

In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a soothsayer famously approaches the Emperor, Caesar, with a [...]

March 14, 2011 0

For centuries, mankind has been trying to “square the circle” — that is, create a square of [...]

March 11, 2011 0

Insects. Candles. Golf. Coal. Depending on who you ask, each of these three things had a role in the [...]

March 10, 2011 0

The United States and Britain have been adversaries at war, officially, twice: the American Revolution and [...]

March 9, 2011 0

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 and its crew landed on the moon. Famously, commander Neil Armstrong planted an [...]