March 17, 2016 0 Is Zero Odd or Even? How India Drove Around the Problem Zero is an even number. Let’s get that out of the way. But if that gave you pause, you’re not alone [...]
March 16, 2016 0 The Mall Fish Machines In the market for a high-end, expensive meal? Here are two rules of thumb: One, don’t even bother looking [...]
March 15, 2016 0 The Withdrawn The high school dropout rate in the United States is about 7%; that is, seven in 100 Americans age 16 to 24 [...]
March 10, 2016 0 VSP The vehicle pictured above looks like a car, probably because it is one — although a smaller-than-usual [...]
March 9, 2016 0 A Scotland Yard’s Foggy Bottom In 1875, two of Edinburgh’s soccer teams — Heart of Midlothian F.C, and Hibernian F.C. — [...]
March 8, 2016 0 Slaying the Silver Ball Fiorello LaGuardia was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, and, on January 1 of the following year, took [...]
March 7, 2016 0 The Den of Unanimity If you Google “Gir Forest National Park” you’ll probably see the above image in the [...]
March 4, 2016 0 The Measles Mystery In the 1960s, children throughout America began receiving a vaccination for measles. And as the chart above [...]
March 3, 2016 0 They Blue It Ask enough people to describe a stop sign and you’ll get some pretty common answers: it has the word [...]
March 2, 2016 0 You Can Taste the Price The hamburger pictured above is from a fancy restaurant. It costs $17. And it probably tastes good. No, [...]