June 18, 2019 0 Rudolph the Red Knows Undersea Warfare, Dear The Soviet Union, from the moment World War II ended until the nation’s collapse toward the end of the 20th [...]
June 17, 2019 0 Why Frogs Ribbit The names we give to animal sounds vary widely as you move from area to area. The reason, generally, has [...]
June 14, 2019 0 The Weekender, June 14, 2019 1) “China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight” (Foreign Policy, 11 minutes, [...]
June 12, 2019 0 The Desert’s No Fly Zone The Mojave Desert is a 48,000 square mile (124,000 km^2) desert in primarily in southeastern California and [...]
June 11, 2019 0 The Coffee Brand That is a Total Lie Walk down the coffee aisle at your local grocery store and you’ll see a lot of options. You may see [...]
June 10, 2019 0 The Casual Slur in Your Utility Drawer Somewhere in your house right now, there’s probably a drawer with all sorts of weird odds-and-ends. [...]
June 6, 2019 0 The Weekender, June 7, 2019 1) “Auschwitz Is Not a Metaphor” (The Atlantic, 11 minutes, June 2019). The subhead: “The [...]
June 5, 2019 0 The Slippers Which Slam Dunked on Loopholes The sneakers pictured above are made by Converse (now a Nike subsidiary) and, formally, are called “Chuck [...]
June 4, 2019 0 The Goalie Who Wouldn’t Stop On April 26, 1947, the English soccer club Charlton Athletic F.C. beat Burnley F.C. by the score of 1-0, [...]
June 3, 2019 0 Why You Shouldn’t Tick off a Tiger tk In the animated version of the classic children’s stories about Winnie the Pooh, the protagonist — [...]