May 9, 2017 0 When the Day After Friday is Friday Today is not Friday — it’s Tuesday. Even if you didn’t know that, you could have figured it [...]
May 8, 2017 0 The Off-Color Golden Arches If you take a drive up West State Route 89A in the Arizona city of Sedona, you’ll come across a lot of [...]
May 5, 2017 0 The Weekender, May 5, 2017 1) “My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He’s Out” (Refinery29, 11 minutes, April 2017). [...]
May 4, 2017 0 Close Encounters of the Jedi Kind In 1999, George Lucas disappointed Star Wars fans around the world with The Phantom Menace, a forgettable [...]
May 3, 2017 0 Bringing the Invisible to Life For many, writing a book is a “bucket list” item — something you want to do while [...]
May 1, 2017 0 The Google Maps Invasion Hop over to Google Maps and scroll to the eastern shore of Nicaragua and Costa Rica — or just click [...]
April 28, 2017 0 The Weekender, April 28, 2017 1) “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria ” (The Atlantic, 25 minutes, April 2017). [...]
April 27, 2017 0 The Great Mustard Pickle Panic of 2016 Food can be very regional. While over time, some foods cross borders and permeate cultures, there are plenty [...]
April 26, 2017 0 An Astronaut’s Most Important Fan The International Space Station is a frequent topic on these pages, in part because life on the International [...]
April 25, 2017 0 The Time Travel Trap On November 5, 1955, a man named Emmett Brown had a tragic slip-and-fall accident — while standing on a [...]