November 24, 2010 0 Perpetual Jellyfish Legend has it that Juan Ponce de Leon’s exploration of Florida was driven by an irrational search for [...]
November 23, 2010 0 How Turkey Got Its Name This week, many American families will gather around the lunch or (and?) dinner table, feasting on a [...]
November 22, 2010 0 Superstitious Superstar Major League Baseball has been in operation for over a century, with the National League claiming a birth [...]
November 19, 2010 0 Freezing to Un-Death The idea that people could freeze themselves, hoping to stave off death and instead thaw sometime in the [...]
November 18, 2010 0 Burning Bush Most everyone is familiar with the biblical passage where Moses comes across a burning bush which, while [...]
November 17, 2010 0 Father Figure What do George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney have in common? A lot of things, certainly. But what [...]
November 16, 2010 0 Back to the Archive Footage Back to the Future celebrated its 25th anniversary this past summer. In the near-instant classic, Marty [...]
November 15, 2010 0 St. Patrick’s Battalion When Americans think of traitors, Benedict Arnold springs to mind. But seventy years later, a much larger [...]
November 12, 2010 0 Eternal Flame Pit Locals call it “The Door to Hell.” The name does it justice. The picture, above, [...]
November 10, 2010 0 Volcanic Scream In 1883, the Indonesian volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded. The explosion was so loud that, reportedly, [...]