May 25, 2011 0 Shuffled Playing cards have been around, in their current 52-card deck incarnation, for roughly 500 years. [...]
May 24, 2011 0 Lock Bumping If your house has a standard door knob lock (a “pin tumbler lock”), the way it works is described [...]
May 23, 2011 0 Spider in the Attic On October 17, 1941, Philip Peters did not show up for dinner at his neighbor’s house. The 73 year old [...]
May 20, 2011 0 Marathon Madness To modern ears, the events of the 1904 Summer Olympics were anything but Olympian. Originally intended to be [...]
May 19, 2011 0 The Candy Desk If there’s one thing American Senators can agree upon, it’s that candy should be available at all [...]
May 18, 2011 0 Baby Carrots Americans eat roughly 10 pounds of carrots each year. And it’s safe to assume that most of those [...]
May 17, 2011 0 Dear Aliens, Read This If you could send a message into outer space, to be read by alien life forms, what would you say? How would [...]
May 16, 2011 0 Shaq Attack Renowned basketball player Shaquille O’Neal stands out in a crowd — and not just because he is [...]
May 14, 2011 0 Political Prisoners in China are Sometimes Made to Play WoW. Here’s Why. “Gold farming” sounds like a great idea — plant seeds, but instead of reaping crops of soy [...]
May 13, 2011 0 Tittle Tittles. You’ll find one in both the White House and at the Taj Mahal. You won’t find any in [...]