April 10, 2014 0 The Explosive Aperitif Many advances in science or technology are named after their inventors. This is often true in warfare; [...]
April 9, 2014 0 Crowing You probably know the name Aesop, a Greek storyteller who is credited with writing hundreds of fables, many [...]
April 8, 2014 0 Fishing for Compliments The book pictured above, available here for about $10, is — as the cover suggests — [...]
April 7, 2014 0 Raise and Shine The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is the only hospital in southwestern [...]
April 4, 2014 0 Take Me Out to the Mayhem On July 12, 1979, the Detroit Tigers were in Chicago to play baseball against the White Sox. They were going [...]
April 3, 2014 0 Paper Airplanes For much of the second half of the 20th century, the United States and Soviet Union were at odds in a [...]
April 2, 2014 0 Högertrafikomläggningen If you look carefully at the pandemonium pictured above, you’ll notice something awry toward the [...]
April 1, 2014 0 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Chalupas Public-private partnerships are a long-standing way for corporations to reach consumers while the public [...]
March 31, 2014 0 Who’s Sorry Now At the end of 2013, the United States Department of Transportation released its monthly ranking [...]
March 28, 2014 0 The Secret Life of F.D.C. Willard In the November 24, 1975 edition of the academic journal Physical Review Letters, there is a paper by two [...]