January 20, 2017 0 Twenty-Five Years Ago Today Was A Good Day — Maybe On February 24, 1993, American gangsta rap star Ice Cube released the song “It Was a Good Day.” The song [...]
January 19, 2017 0 Where Ten Degrees Below Zero is Unreasonably Warm The picture above is a forest, frozen over and covered in ice and snow. The photograph was taken in February [...]
January 18, 2017 0 How Pride Makes Basketball Players Worse Rick Barry played professional basketball from 1965–1980, in both the NBA as well as the now-defunct ABA. [...]
January 17, 2017 0 New Jersey’s Shockingly Dangerous Water Slide Every ten years, the United States conducts a census, intending to count every person who lives within its [...]
January 13, 2017 0 The Weekender, January 13, 2017 1) “How a KGB Assassin Used the Death of His Child to Defect ” (Politico, 16 minutes, January [...]
January 12, 2017 0 What They Did Not See The point flagged above is pretty close to the northeastern tip of the Labrador Peninsula. Few if any people [...]
January 11, 2017 0 Where Only the Napalm Is Real The petrol bomb pictured above exploded on the corner of Vickers Way, in the UK town of Gravesend, Kent, not [...]
January 10, 2017 0 The Strain of Driving In recent years, many areas have debated whether citizens and visitors should have the right to wear [...]
January 9, 2017 0 Do Cheering Fans Help Us Do Better? Let’s Ask Some Roaches Imagine a world-class sprinter running in an empty stadium with nothing but the cameras quietly broadcasting [...]
January 6, 2017 0 Lighting Up the Switchboards In 2002, the “reality” TV show American Idol took the United States by storm. The show, a hardly-subtle [...]