May 30, 2014 0 The Ice King Cometh The 2013 movie Frozen (which you probably should watch if you haven’t) opens with an squadron of men, armed [...]
May 29, 2014 0 The Fifty Cent Party If you try to access the Internet from within China, you’ll find that it’s a much different experience [...]
May 28, 2014 0 The Legend of Sheng Long The image above is a screenshot from the iconic 1991 arcade game Street Fighter II. In the game, [...]
May 27, 2014 0 Return to Slov-Something-or-Other Pictured above is a relatively recent map of Eastern Europe. To the north of Hungary, you’ll [...]
May 23, 2014 0 Flooding the Phones The town of Folsom, New Mexico isn’t named after the prison made famous by the Johnny Cash song. It isn’t [...]
May 22, 2014 0 Drive-Through Sit-In In most places in the United States and, probably, the Western world, McDonald’s and other fast food joints [...]
May 21, 2014 0 The Wreck of the Richard Montgomery The U-boat was a German submarine from World War II, one which at the time went unrivaled by the rest of the [...]
May 20, 2014 0 Burying the Bentley In 1949, Pope Pius XII honored a Brazilian philanthropist named Francisco Scarpa for his charitable [...]
May 19, 2014 0 It’s a Colorful Life There’s a 90% or so chance that you’re something called a “trichromat.” The rest of you are almost [...]
May 16, 2014 0 The Spark The term “coronal mass ejection” sounds like something best avoided, even if one has no idea what it [...]