November 21, 2011 0 Nobody’s Home Small scale innovations occur every day, propagating though our culture and economy organically as more and [...]
November 18, 2011 0 Mickey Mask On December 7, 1941, Japanese pilots bombed Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. The [...]
November 17, 2011 0 Short Temper Kim Jong-il has been ruling North Korea since July of 1994, when he succeeded his father upon the [...]
November 16, 2011 0 Red Hot Chili Peppers In 1912, a pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville came up with a test to measure the spiciness of peppers. His [...]
November 15, 2011 0 Dead Squid Dancing The video below is of lunch — lunch for an American tourist in Hokadate, Hokkaido, Japan. The dish is [...]
November 14, 2011 0 Billion Dollar Home Mukesh Ambani has money. A lot of money. With an estimated personal wealth of roughly $27 billion (give [...]
November 11, 2011 0 Oneteen and Twoteen Today is November 11, 2011 — or, 11/11/11. It is a very “eleven” day. But with the number [...]
November 10, 2011 0 Thermonuclear War and Taxes In a letter dated November 17, 1789, Benjamin Franklin told his friend Jean-Baptiste Leroy that the United [...]
November 9, 2011 0 Liquor, Sicker The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect in 1919, and early the next year, [...]
November 8, 2011 0 Earth 2.0 Superman hails from a planet called Krypton, an Earth-like planet of (superpowered) Earth-like people. As the [...]