March 28, 2011 0 Mite Be a Bad Idea A few millennia ago, in ancient Egypt, King Tutankhamun had an elaborate, gold gilded wooden bed (seen here, [...]
March 25, 2011 0 Prawo Jazdy: Ireland’s Worst Driver Fifty tickets. Everything from reckless driving and speeding to parking illegally. All in Ireland, over [...]
March 24, 2011 0 The Boat in the Middle of Nowhere If there is a middle of nowhere, it is Bouvet Island, a 19 square mile piece of land in the South Atlantic, [...]
March 23, 2011 0 Vice President… Who? One of the more intense topics of U.S. presidential campaigns is the selection of the running mate. The [...]
March 21, 2011 0 Unseen Animal Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. The Yeti. All three of these mythic creatures have never, formally, [...]
March 18, 2011 0 Paper Trail The image above is from Wikipedia. It’s an illustration of something called “printer [...]
March 17, 2011 0 Conan the Bacterium The image above is not of a four-leaf clover. It’s of a quartet of bacteria named deinococcus [...]
March 16, 2011 0 First Dakota On February 22, 1889, Congress passed The Enabling Act of 1889, allowing the areas of Washington, Montana, [...]
March 15, 2011 0 Washington’s Ides of March In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a soothsayer famously approaches the Emperor, Caesar, with a [...]
March 14, 2011 0 Easier Than Pi For centuries, mankind has been trying to “square the circle” — that is, create a square of [...]