October 12, 2011 0 Underwater Repair Men When the pipes under your sink spring a leak, you call a plumber. But what does New York City do when the [...]
October 11, 2011 0 Year 100 Almost the entire world — even those societies which have separate calendering systems — use the [...]
October 7, 2011 0 The Art of War The Western depiction of life in the Soviet Union could have accurately be described is cold, gray, and [...]
October 6, 2011 0 Hawaii Dollars The U.S. Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to coin money, and an 1884 Supreme Court [...]
October 5, 2011 0 Early Warning Lemurs On August 23, 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck central Virginia, causing reverberations up and [...]
October 4, 2011 0 Brown Bear, Banned Bear In 1967, Bill Martin, Jr. collaborated with author and illustrator Eric Carle (who wrote The Very Hungry [...]
October 3, 2011 0 Garbage City Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is one of the largest urban areas in the world, with over 6.5 million [...]
September 28, 2011 0 Temporary Blindness Go to a mirror and look at either of your eyes. Then, while keeping your head still, look at the other one. [...]
September 27, 2011 0 Tomato War Food fights are a hallmark element of many American coming of age movies, as high schoolers or college [...]
September 26, 2011 0 Turkey and Chickens In 1963, France and West Germany placed a tariff on the importation of chicken. For the United States this [...]