May 2, 2013 0 The Birthday Problem Let’s make a couple of assumptions. First, let’s assume that birthdays are randomly distributed [...]
May 1, 2013 0 Fred’s Fish The first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood aired in 1968; the last new episode aired in 2001. If [...]
April 30, 2013 0 Atlantropa For much of the early 1900s, many German leaders were espousing a political science theory called Lebensraum, [...]
April 29, 2013 0 On the Juice Here’s a fun science experiment to try at home. You’ll need a cotton ball or a Q-tip (generic is [...]
April 26, 2013 0 Beer Bricks In 1864, a man named Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought a brewery in Amsterdam. That brewery would become the [...]
April 25, 2013 0 The Unlikely Collectors Herbert Vogel was a high school dropout, a World War II veteran, and, for most of his adult [...]
April 24, 2013 0 The Kalamazoo Promise The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan is the sixteenth most populous in the state, with just under 75,000 people [...]
April 23, 2013 0 Skyscraper Caper Go to 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, look up, and you’ll see the [...]
April 22, 2013 0 Blue Ear Mosaic trisomy 22 is the name of a chromosomal disorder in which some, but not all of the person’s [...]
April 19, 2013 0 Something Old, Something Blue The Battle of Gettysburg is generally considered to be a symbolic turning point of the American [...]