July 14, 2011 0 Faux Meat Trap The flower pictured above is called the European Dutchman’s Pipe. It looks like your typical flower, [...]
July 13, 2011 0 Lunar Illusion Every once in a while, you may look up into the sky and notice that the moon is, relative to its normal size, [...]
July 12, 2011 0 The Isolated Tree In 1973, a Libyan truck driver, allegedly drunk, got into an accident. He was driving [...]
July 11, 2011 0 Pellagra In the early 1900s, an epidemic hit the American South. Called pellagra — Italian for “sour [...]
July 8, 2011 0 The Two Soviets Who Saved the World In 1961, the United States undertook a series of unsuccessful campaigns in Cuba, attempting to overthrow [...]
July 7, 2011 0 The Missing Person Living in Savannah Benjaman Kyle, pictured above, is missing. Benjaman Kyle also lives in Savannah, Georgia. If you had [...]
July 6, 2011 0 The World’s Shortest War Off the coast of mainland Tanzania is Zanzibar, now a semi-autonomous archipelago but part of Tanzania [...]
July 5, 2011 0 The Most Isolated People in the World The part of the Indian Ocean encapsulated by the eastern shore of India and the shores of Bangladesh and [...]
July 1, 2011 0 Road Rage The picture above (larger version here) was taken early one weekday morning. The tiles shown sit squarely [...]
June 30, 2011 0 Dr. Scholl’s Path to the Presidency Picoaza, Ecuador is a relatively small village near the country’s Pacific coast. With a current [...]