March 1, 2011 0 The Bourne Identity Not Jason. Ansel. Back in the 1850s, Ansel Bourne was a carpenter in Rhode Island. In 1857, for [...]
February 28, 2011 0 And the Oscar Doesn’t Go To… In 1969, the movie Death of a Gunfighter debuted. Starring Richard Widmark, Lena Horn, and Carroll [...]
February 25, 2011 0 Lucy in the Sky is Diamonds What happens when a star dies? Fifty light years — that’s about 300,000,000,000,000 (300 [...]
February 24, 2011 0 Extreme Summer Vacation How’d you spend your last summer? We’re betting that Matt Moniz, pictured above, aspired to [...]
February 23, 2011 0 The World’s Deepest Indoor Pool Ever want to dive over 100 feet below the water’s surface, without going outside? You can — if [...]
February 22, 2011 0 Qaddafi’s Bodyguards With the events in the Middle East — the nightmare of dictators — unfolding before our eyes, one [...]
February 18, 2011 0 Rules of Thumbs The thumb up is the universal sign for “well done,” “nice job,” and “I [...]
February 17, 2011 0 Let There Be Light In 1995, Who Shot Mr. Burns?, a two-part episode of The Simpsons — and, for that matter, the only [...]
February 16, 2011 0 Long Division Märket, an island 8.2 square miles, lays between Sweden and Finland in the Gulf of Bothnia, just at the [...]
February 15, 2011 0 The Swedish Solar System The Ericsson Globe seats 13,850 hockey fans, and at 110 meters in diameter, the large [...]