August 22, 2012 0 South Korea’s Reverse Gold Rush In 1997, many countries in Asia’s Pacific Rim suffered from a massive financial crisis which threatened [...]
August 21, 2012 0 Winning Receipts Government-run lotteries are not uncommon. Pass over a buck or two and you get a ticket, which, if [...]
August 20, 2012 0 Kaninhoppning There are many strange competitions in this world. There’s extreme ironing, toe wrestling, and the [...]
August 17, 2012 0 Life in the Fast Lane Speeding may earn you a ticket. And in most cases, it will cost you maybe $150 or 100 Euros. For many people, [...]
August 16, 2012 0 Monkey Island Cayo Santiago is a small island about half a mile off the southeast coast of Puerto Rico. Shaped like an [...]
August 15, 2012 0 The Sound of Silence Sometimes, one just needs a bit of peace and quiet. Not for serenity (well, that too), but for scientific [...]
August 14, 2012 0 The Bat Bomb During the final days of World War II, the United States, apparently believing that Japan was unlikely to [...]
August 13, 2012 0 Faster Than a Speeding Bullet American swimmer Michael Phelps has 22 Olympic medals to his name — 18 gold, two silver, and two [...]
August 10, 2012 0 Les Horribles Cernettes The image above is, from left to right, Angela Higney, Michele de Gennaro, Colette Marx-Neilsen, Lynn [...]
August 9, 2012 0 Three of a Kind In 2005, Debbie and Kent Beasley of California had triplets — kind of. All three children were [...]