October 17, 2018 0 The Battle Over the Collect Call As mobile phones have become increasingly common, collect calls (known as “reverse charge calls” [...]
October 16, 2018 0 How a Little Bit of Dishonesty Can Get You Free Tacos In 1990, the BBC debuted a competitive cooking show called MasterChef. It aired for more than a decade, [...]
October 15, 2018 0 Why We Park on Driveways and Drive on Parkways English is a funny language for many, many reasons. And a common way to make this point is via a jokey [...]
October 10, 2018 0 The “Faithful Employee” Award Which Had the Opposite Effect There’s a water treatment facility in Cádiz, Spain, which even if you knew of it, you probably didn’t [...]
October 9, 2018 0 Why We Don’t Chat Chit About Flop Flips In English, adjectives typically come before the nouns they modify — e.g. “large cat,” not [...]
October 3, 2018 0 The Kids’ TV Host Who Was Put in Time Out If you grew up in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, you know who the man pictured above is. [...]
October 2, 2018 0 The Queen’s Secret Code Think about this for a moment: when was the last time you saw a president, a prime minister, or another chief [...]
October 1, 2018 0 The Life-Saving Home Renovation In 1979, “This Old House,” one the first home improvement shows debuted. The genre expanded over [...]
September 28, 2018 0 The Weekender, September 28, 2018 1) “Blood and Oil” (Rolling Stone, 30 minutes, September 2018). The subhead: “Mexico’s [...]
September 27, 2018 0 The Tomato Plant Versus the Volcano In 1990, the New York Times called Surtsey the “Youngest Spot on Earth.” That’s probably accurate. [...]