June 26, 2012 0 San Diego’s Frozen Zoo Playing home to over 3,500 animals over a 100 acre campus, the San Diego Zoo is one of the world’s [...]
June 25, 2012 0 Umbrella Lottery Flip a coin. There’s a 50% chance it will come up heads. Roll a six-sided die, and you have about a 33% [...]
June 22, 2012 0 E.T.? No Going Home The Solar System is, in the greater scheme of things, really, really tiny. You may not be able to see it from [...]
June 21, 2012 0 The Buzzer Pskov, Russia, is located about a dozen miles off the Estonian border and is home to about 200,000 people. It [...]
June 20, 2012 0 Barbie’s Diet Plan The Barbie doll was first unveiled by Mattel on March 9, 1959. The doll, the creation of a woman named Ruth [...]
June 19, 2012 0 Bearing Arms In January of 1944, Europe was in the throes of war, and seemingly nothing (save perhaps for Switzerland) was [...]
June 18, 2012 0 Miles and Miles The distance from New York to Los Angeles is about 2,800 miles. From Cairo to Johannesburg, about 4,000 [...]
June 15, 2012 0 Super Seed Bank The picture above looks like something out of theĀ Empire Strikes BackĀ — perhaps an entrance to the [...]
June 14, 2012 0 In the Year 1982 Technology moves quickly. Things that, early on, look like winners, often die out soon thereafter. In 1996, [...]
June 13, 2012 0 Sandwich Law There are many Mexican restaurant chains in the United States, most notably Chipotle, Qdoba, Taco del Mar, [...]