February 2, 2011 0 Stupid Google Tricks Today is Groundhog Day, and if you’re familiar with the movie of the same name (you should be!), your [...]
February 1, 2011 0 Taking a Bullet for Your Client Clement Vallandigham (pictured) was, by modern standards especially, a pretty terrible Congressman (and for [...]
January 31, 2011 0 Ice Scream “Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” sounds like a terrible disease, and, certainly, it can be [...]
January 28, 2011 0 If You Build It… In Field of Dreams, a disembodied voice speaks to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner): “If you build it, they [...]
January 27, 2011 0 Fangs for the Blood Vampire bats drink blood. A lot of it, in fact — in order to survive, they need to consume roughly 50 [...]
January 25, 2011 0 The Harry Potter Fan Who Was Worthy of Gryffindor By the time Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in the Harry Potter saga, was published in [...]
January 24, 2011 0 The Fast Lane Had you spent the afternoon last Saturday channel surfing, you may have come across a bowling tournament [...]
January 21, 2011 0 Safer Than Maine? When one thinks of New York City and crime, the image typically imagined is one of danger, at least relative [...]
January 20, 2011 0 Hippo in the Sun Hippos live their lives in the sweltering African heat. They cool off by spending as much as sixteen hours [...]
January 19, 2011 0 Why Diet Coke Loves Mentos Step 1: Take a bottle of Diet Coke, ideally a 2-liter one, and open it. Step 2: Add Mentos. Step 3: Duck. If [...]