October 24, 2018 0 The Problem With Anonymous Lottery Winners Last night, a multi-state American lottery called Mega Millions held a drawing that captured the attention of [...]
October 23, 2018 0 When New York Tried to Take Away a W On January 20, 2001, George W. Bush — known colloquially as simply “W” or “Dubya” — was [...]
October 22, 2018 0 The Cell Phone Contract Killer There’s a good chance you’re reading these words on a mobile device such as a smartphone. If that’s the [...]
October 18, 2018 0 Until Death Does the Hangman Part Here’s a myth you don’t want to test out, in part because you’ll have to commit a really [...]
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. [...]