October 24, 2012 0 Ding Zui In May of 2009, a well-to-do 20-year-old named Hu Bin struck a working-class pedestrian while drag racing. [...]
October 23, 2012 0 The Controversy Around Neil Armstrong’s Famous Quote On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission crew made its descent to the moon. Neil Armstrong exited the lunar [...]
October 22, 2012 0 Pennies From Everywhere College tuition is expensive, at least in the United States. The University of California, Los Angeles [...]
October 19, 2012 0 McMansion The term “McMansion” is pejorative, poking fun at a house which is typically rather large but [...]
October 18, 2012 0 Technicolor Dreamcoats The Parthenon, pictured above, is perhaps the most recognizable relic from ancient Greece. From top to [...]
October 17, 2012 0 Cow Magnets In March of 2012, a three-year-old child in Oregon swallowed over three dozen magnet spheres. Each sphere [...]
October 16, 2012 0 Witzelsucht Corny jokes and bad puns are a calling card of many people, even if their sense of humor induces more groans [...]
October 15, 2012 0 Pizza Farms In November of 2011, the United States Congress declared pizza to be a vegetable — if you believed [...]
October 12, 2012 0 The World’s Largest Funnel Seen above is the Morning Glory Spillway in Napa County’s Monticello Dam. The dam creates Lake [...]
October 11, 2012 0 Express Flight The Orkney Islands are an archipelago in northern Scotland, about ten hours by car and ferry from Glasgow and [...]