February 4, 2013 0 Spam Economics Pictured above is something called a CAPTCHA — a “Completely Automated Public Turing test to [...]
February 1, 2013 0 Super Bowl Interception In 1989, the San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals faced off in Super Bowl XXIII in Miami, Florida. Like [...]
January 31, 2013 0 All’s Unfair On February 5, 2012, the New York Giants and New England Patriots took to the gridiron in Super Bowl XLVI, a [...]
January 30, 2013 0 Calling Dar Bizziebee Norfolk Island, flagged on the map above, is a tiny island 877 miles (1,412 kilometers) east of mainland [...]
January 29, 2013 0 Egg Egg A typical chicken egg weighs about two ounces or 50 to 60 grams. But a YouTube user named Sean Wilson found a [...]
January 28, 2013 0 Lyin’ Fries Walk into virtually any American McDonald’s and the menu is roughly the same, as is how that food is [...]
January 25, 2013 0 When Astronauts Smuggled Mail into Space The image above (much larger version here) doesn’t look like much, but the item has been [...]
January 24, 2013 0 The Making of a Million-Dollar Fly Peter A. Lawrence is a developmental biologist at the University of Cambridge’s Laboratory of Molecular [...]
January 23, 2013 0 Operation Unthinkable The European front of World War II ended in May of 1945, but, of course, the fighting did not [...]
January 22, 2013 0 Nuclear Shadows On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan; three days later, a second nuke [...]