July 13, 2010 0 Velociraptors Weren’t Very Scary After All The villain in movie Jurassic Park wasn’t an actor, but rather a dinosaur: the velociraptor, as [...]
July 12, 2010 0 Indiana Jones and the Sonic of Boom We’re all familiar with Indiana Jones, replete with adventure-beaten fedora, leather jacket, and of [...]
July 9, 2010 0 Americans Flush Five Cents Away, Every Day The United States government has many different agencies — the Treasury, the Department of Defense, [...]
July 8, 2010 0 The Undiscovered Island of the Polar Bear Imagine if, suddenly, present-day explorers discovered an island previously unbeknownst to mankind. If that [...]
July 7, 2010 0 The Luckiest Dessert in History Powerball, a multi-state lottery, has unique rules. Players pick six numbers: five which they hope will [...]
July 6, 2010 0 The Longest One-Word Sentence? “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” According to William [...]
July 2, 2010 0 The First American Flag Was Very British Looking We are all familiar with the 50 stars and 13 stripes which, together, comprise the flag of the United States [...]
July 1, 2010 0 Re-Read All About It Everyone in television gets the same news — literally, in fact. The top picture above is from an [...]
June 30, 2010 0 Sometimes, To Win, You Have to Play to Lose In 1994, twenty-one Caribbean nations gathered on the soccer pitch to play for the Shell Caribbean Cup. [...]
June 29, 2010 0 Kentucky, Disconnected Seventeen square miles. Seventeen (or so) residents. 100% Kentucky. And isolated from the rest of the [...]