September 28, 2017 0 The Town that Drives Itself Ghost towns have a few hallmark features — lots of buildings, lots of roads, and no residents. These [...]
September 26, 2017 0 Why We Yawn Okay, let’s start by apologizing: the subject of this article probably made you yawn. According to a [...]
September 25, 2017 0 The Man Who Ate Potatoes. Lots of Potatoes. If you haven’t read the 2014 book The Martian, well, you should. (It’s excellent.) There’s [...]
September 20, 2017 0 The Mayor Who Tried to Eliminate His Own Job If you want to win an election in the United States (and this is probably true almost everywhere else, too), [...]
September 19, 2017 0 The Dead Man Who Sued to Make Himself Alive Donald E. Miller, Jr. was dead — he died in 1994. Nearly two decades later, very much alive, he stood [...]
September 18, 2017 0 Where “Cold, Hard Cash” is Very Literal Carrying around cash usually isn’t very cumbersome. Bills fit neatly into wallets, unless you have a [...]
September 15, 2017 0 The Weekender, September 15, 2017 1) “The Strangest Sights Cassini Saw: Postcards From Saturn” (NPR, 5-minute video, September [...]
September 14, 2017 0 How a Good Breakfast Helped Create a Sneaker Empire With a market cap (as of this writing) of about $85 billion, Nike is a behemoth in the sportswear and apparel [...]
September 13, 2017 0 What Happens When a Monkey Takes an Awesome Picture of Itself? Pictured above is a monkey. Specifically, it’s a macaque, and one that is smiling– grinning, [...]
September 12, 2017 0 The Power of Being Bored Boredom, in today’s world, is fleeting. Because of our phones — supercomputers, but pocket-sized [...]