June 28, 2011 0 Bats and Hammers Charlie O. Finley owned Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s from 1960 (when the team was in Kansas City) [...]
June 27, 2011 0 Tax Refund The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 per hour. It is €6.66 per hour in the United Kingdom and [...]
June 24, 2011 0 Liquid Memories In 1969, Eric Carle wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a now-classic story of a caterpillar who spends a [...]
June 23, 2011 0 Schtroumpf “Pass the salt.” That’s a rather simple sentence. Three words, three syllables, fourteen [...]
June 22, 2011 0 Happy Birthday (c) The song is iconic. “Happy birthday to you,” twice. “Happy birthday” (again) [...]
June 21, 2011 0 Six Figures of Champagne About a week ago, the NHL’s Boston Bruins won the league’s playoffs, taking home [...]
June 20, 2011 0 The President’s Robotic Arm There is an iconic, three minute segment of Schoolhouse Rock which teaches kids (and, we bet, [...]
June 17, 2011 0 Roman Whatzit Hundreds of them have been discovered — in England; throughout France and Germany; and extending into [...]
June 16, 2011 0 Choosing Dialysis Patients It is a generic, common hypothetical ethics question. You and four others are stranded on a desert island, in [...]
June 15, 2011 0 Television Dreams Try and recall the last dream you remember. Perhaps the facts and circumstances are hazy, but how about the [...]