October 2, 2015 0 How to Land a Plane By Leaving It On February 2, 1970, a local sheriff in Montana arrived on the scene of an accident. But this wasn’t a [...]
October 1, 2015 0 Van Morrison and the Thirty-One Songs about Nothing But a Bad Contract Van Morrison is a legend of the music world. He has won six Grammys, is an inductee into both the the Rock [...]
September 30, 2015 0 Big Mac’ll Make You Jump Jump Two all beef patties. Special sauce. Lettuce. Cheese. Pickles. Onions. On a sesame seed bun. Those words were [...]
September 29, 2015 0 How a Unit Conversion Error Turned an Airplane into a Glider A flight from Montreal to Edmonton is about 1,800 miles or 2,900 kilometers. Those distances are the same, [...]
September 28, 2015 0 How Potatoes Changed the Outcome of a World War II Naval Battle The warship pictured above was the USS O’Bannon, which served in the United States Navy during World [...]
September 24, 2015 0 The Temperature-Detecting Trick Our Eyes and Ears Can Play The term “caloric stimulation” sounds like a medical term, probably because it is one. But it has [...]
September 22, 2015 0 The Everyday Superheroes at the Elder Care Facility On October 24, 2013, the California Department of Social Services shut down a small elder care facility in [...]
September 21, 2015 0 What Happens When a Convict Doesn’t Actually Go To Prison In 1999, a 22-year-old Missouri man named Cornealious Michael (“Mike”) Anderson held up a Burger [...]
September 18, 2015 0 The Mystery of the Appalachian Bend Three hundred million years ago, the Earth looked a lot different than it did today. We still had oceans and [...]
September 17, 2015 0 The Infrequent Flyer Meal Program “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” That quote — the origins are unknown — [...]