March 4, 2019 0 Domo Arigato, Mr. Robutto According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in nine men will be diagnosed with prostate [...]
March 1, 2019 0 The Weekender, March 1, 2019 1) “The Congressman Who Went Off the Grid ” (Politico, 11 minutes, January 2014). This was easily [...]
February 28, 2019 0 New York City’s Secret (Tiny) Subway The main branch of the New York Public Library, officially the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, is located in [...]
February 27, 2019 0 Arresting the Rooster The Nugget Casino Resort, as it’s now known, opened in 1955 in Sparks, Nevada, a suburb of Reno. [...]
February 26, 2019 0 The Writing Was on the Wall Crossword puzzles are, at least in theory, pretty simple. There’s a grid with some blank spaces in which [...]
February 25, 2019 0 When a Baseball Team Traded for Runs Major League Baseball got underway over the last few days, with all 30 teams playing their first (fake) games [...]
February 22, 2019 0 The Weekender, February 22, 2019 1) “Baby Blue Blood Drive” (Radiolab, 58 minutes, August 2018). This is a podcast episode about [...]
February 21, 2019 0 How to Recycle Thousands of Tons of Military-Grade Metal Pictured above is the USS Oriskany, an American aircraft carrier. In the image above, this huge warship was [...]
February 15, 2019 0 The Weekender, February 15, 2019 1) “The Most Dangerous Book in the World” (Mental Floss, 11 minutes, January 2019). The subhead: [...]
February 14, 2019 0 You Can’t Be Late To This Party Stephen Hawking, pictured above left, was considered one of the world’s smartest people during his [...]