POSTED // Jun 8,2011 - Depending on how you define “homemade,” “space” and “ship,” you can get a craft into space, or at least a respectable distance off the ground ...

POSTED // May 30,2011 - Once upon a time whale oil was, in fact, used to lube new cars, in the United States as well as Japan.

POSTED // May 23,2011 - I took a geology class not long ago and read about a guy that had massive amounts of coal underneath his ranch. The dude sold the ranch, made millions, and moved into a penthouse.

POSTED // May 16,2011 - Get out that calculator! I’ve always wondered: take the 1860 census, add up the number of slaves in the United States ...

POSTED // May 10,2011 - My co-worker shocked and baffled me by reporting that, in 10 years or so, bananas will be extinct ...

POSTED // May 2,2011 - You should tell the story of the dwarf planet Eris, whose discovery was directly responsible for the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.

POSTED // Apr 25,2011 - I read an article recently about a man who says our current chronology is about a thousand years off and that the years between 500 to 1500 (to round it off) didn’t really happen ...

POSTED // Apr 18,2011 - I was recently distracted from my dust allergy woes by a Radiolab episode discussing how the noble but misunderstood hookworm...

POSTED // Apr 11,2011 - What are the legal implications of getting yourself tattooed with a copyrighted or trademarked image, such as a sports team logo?

POSTED // Apr 4,2011 - I realize this is an atomic-sized request, but I would love to get to the bottom of this ...