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 [...]
May 17, 2012 0 Unvandalism The Pantheon, pictured above, is a mausoleum in Paris. Built starting in 1758 and completed in 1790, it is [...]
May 16, 2012 0 Rocketman Yves Rossy is a pilot. Like most other pilots, he flies things. Unlike every other pilot — ever — [...]
May 15, 2012 0 Dying at All is Not Allowed Throughout the ages, government have banned seemingly everything — other than death and taxes, or so [...]
May 14, 2012 0 The Nazis’ Chocolate Bomb The term “Death by Chocolate” usually refers to a dessert recipe — chocolate cake served [...]
May 11, 2012 0 Walker’s Filibuster When we think of the term “filibuster,” the definition that springs to mind is the political one, [...]
May 10, 2012 0 General Butt Naked Joshua Milton Blahyi, pictured above, is a preacher living in Ghana who turned 40 years old on September 30, [...]
May 9, 2012 0 The Plague Village Starting in about 1347, the bubonic plague started a pandemic called the “Black Death.” The [...]
May 8, 2012 0 Pakistan’s Village of Illegal Guns Pakistan and Afghanistan are both economically depressed, with a per capita GDP of roughly $3,500 and $1,000 [...]
May 7, 2012 0 Pudding One Over The first frequent flyer program was put in place by the now defunct Texas International Airlines in 1979. [...]