December 29, 2010 0 Foul Tip The late 1980s were a great time to collect baseball cards. In 1989, a company named Upper Deck debuted [...]
December 28, 2010 0 Viral Batteries In an increasingly digital and mobile world, we’ve come more and more reliant on batteries to power our [...]
December 27, 2010 0 Mystery Food The image above is not of a squash. The yellow fruit (actually, an “accessory fruit”) is called a [...]
December 23, 2010 0 Jefferson’s Code The second President of the United States, John Adams, died on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day the [...]
December 22, 2010 0 Recessive Earwax Almost everyone has it. It — earwax, that is — is, mostly, gross, but it serves a few purposes: [...]
December 21, 2010 0 Ice Cream, You Scream Guns. Arson. And, ice cream and superglue. Not a likely mix? In Glasgow’s East End in the 1980s, the [...]
December 20, 2010 0 Groom Kidnapping The term “shotgun wedding” is, except in rare cases, no longer taken literally, at least [...]
December 17, 2010 0 Immaculate Conceptions Go to Vietnam and you’ll likely see the lizard, pictured right, on your dinner plate or on one of you [...]
December 16, 2010 0 Stereotypical Concept Car Imagine if a major automobile manufacturer created a car “designed for women” — replete [...]
December 15, 2010 0 Grape Balls of Fire What happens when you cut a grape almost in half, cover it with a glass, and microwave it? Sparks. Big [...]