February 7, 2012 0 Slow Drip Pick a hot summer day and walk across an asphalt surface — a road, driveway, or parking [...]
February 6, 2012 0 Sleeping Beauty Syndrome Fairy tales made their way into the modern literacy sphere when French author Charles Perrault, in 1697, [...]
February 3, 2012 0 Oil Baron When we think of oil barons, we think of people who make a living and then some in the petroleum business. [...]
February 2, 2012 0 Anti-Terror Fish The bluegill, pictured above, is a freshwater fish native to, and common in, the eastern United States. They [...]
February 1, 2012 0 Nazca Lines The Nazca Desert is the southern part of Peru, not too far from the Pacific coast. The desert is an extremely [...]
January 31, 2012 0 Assorted and Sorted Open up a container of mixed nuts and you may notice something: chances are, they are no longer mixed. The [...]
January 30, 2012 0 Make Your Own X-Rays When we think of x-rays, our minds probably go right to medical and dental services — typically, the [...]
January 27, 2012 0 It’s Gotta Be the Shorts Ask virtually anyone who the greatest basketball player of all time is and they’ll reply [...]
January 26, 2012 0 Jumping Over Babies The Feast of Corpus Christi is a religious celebration marked by Catholics (and a few Anglican churches) [...]
January 26, 2012 0 McBarge In 1986, the World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World’s Fair, opened in Vancouver, [...]