June 1, 2012 0 The Curious History of Graham Crackers and Corn Flakes The graham cracker is a cookie of sorts, common in the United States, which is typically sweetened with [...]
May 31, 2012 0 Lightning Lake The Catatumbo River is about 300 miles long. It begins in Colombia and empties into Lake Maracaibo in the [...]
May 30, 2012 0 Thinking Green A “vegetable” is a derogatory term for someone who lacks brain function — a slang term [...]
May 29, 2012 0 Bed Time Imagine doing nothing but lie in bed for approximately three months without a medical reason. You will [...]
May 25, 2012 0 No Parking Singapore is a roughly 275 square mile island city-state located off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. [...]
May 24, 2012 0 Stealing One’s Own Work Petr Taborsky was a college student with a part-time, on-campus job as a research assistant at the University [...]
May 23, 2012 0 Stealing Back the Stone of Destiny For centuries, Scottish monarchs were crowned while sitting or standing on a large, rectangular slab of red [...]
May 22, 2012 0 Held in Check On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. On that very same day, the two [...]
May 21, 2012 0 The Usual Suspects The 1995 movie The Usual Suspects won two Academy Awards — screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie won one [...]
May 18, 2012 0 Acoustic Kitty For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union were leading [...]