April 8, 2011 0 The High Life Anecdotally, there is plenty of evidence that people prefer things higher up over those things lower down. [...]
April 7, 2011 0 Allergic to Paris Each year, Paris welcomes 45 million visitors to the city. Of those, roughly 1 million come from Japan. [...]
April 6, 2011 0 Grandpa President Two hundred years ago, a young man named John Tyler would get his first taste of politics. In 1811, Tyler [...]
April 5, 2011 0 The Last Jew in Afghanistan There are, world-wide, only about 13 million Jews — a number totaling less than half the population of [...]
April 4, 2011 0 The Earth’s Bulls-Eye The image above, taken from Wikipedia, is a sattelite image. But it is not of the Great Red Spot of [...]
April 1, 2011 0 November Fools Somewhere tonight, a group of teenagers will order pizza. A few pizzas, in fact, probably [...]
March 31, 2011 0 The Babe’s Lost Homers In 1919, Babe Ruth — in his last season with the Red Sox — slugged 29 home runs. This was a new [...]
March 30, 2011 0 The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina’s parents were worried. Lina, one of nine children in this poor family of the Peruvian [...]
March 29, 2011 0 Marooned on the Moon Sometimes, the grandest plans go awry. And because of that, we often plan for the [...]
March 28, 2011 0 The Phantom Menace During World War II, Americans of many different backgrounds and experience sets were drafted into the armed [...]