Before the world went digital and we longed to fly out electric hover cars like the Jetsons, we all used to exchange physical bits of metal called coins whenever we were interested in buying something. Because coins usually represented small amounts of value such as a penny you would invariably end up with [ ]
Have you ever tried to drive a car with the wrong speedometer settings? You may be surprised to find this out, but if you live in America, yes your car has two speedometer settings. You can drive using miles per hour (mph) or kilometers per hour (km/h). This simple difference between US Imperial units and [ ]
The year was 1911, and in a showdown that must ve inspired the knife fight between the Jets and Sharks (West Side Story, y all), ten uber-rich businessmen challenged Harry Houdini to perform an incomprehensible death-defying escape from the belly of a whale. Except apparently whales were hard to come by, so Houdini said screw it, I m [ ]
Today, I must regale you with the life story of an incredibly important man who has certainly touched your life Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, A.K. Now, before you start laughing and say to yourself Adam, I don t know anyone by THAT ridiculous name! I assure you that you know his work very well. Professor Butts [ ]
Wake up from the alarm. Groan. Stretch. Sigh. Lament that you don t want to get up. Debate about not getting up. Get up and shuffle off to the restroom. Consider skipping morning productivity and going back to bed. Does this sound like you every morning? Of course it doesn t it sounds like ME! Yes, [ ]
What if I told you that you had exactly 24 hours to make build a clock more accurate than a caseium timepiece? Well, you d probably reach into your drawer and pull out your laser-suspended strontium clock right out! Right? Well, if you don t know (as I didn t) our modern atomic clocks are measured in [ ]
What would you think if you saw a car rolling all the way up a hill from a dead stop, without the driver accelerating? You d probably exclaim that s impossible! or it must be haunted! or maybe it s magic! But it isn t magic, and there s actually a number of places in the world that this very phenomenon occurs. They re [ ]
When I was faced with extreme grief, despair, dread, and anger, I responded in a way that I would never recommend I went to school the next day. On November 28th, 1999, my father lost a year-long battle with prostate cancer. He was just 49 It was, and in many ways still is, a [ ]
Thankfully, you ve never done so poorly at your job that you ended up being engulfed in flames. Well, unless your name is Dale Earnhardt Jr. now retired super-famous NASCAR driver. Earnhardt Jr. is the son of absolute racing legend, Dale Earnhardt Sr., who sadly passed away during the final lap of NASCAR s Super Bowl [ ]
Forget that failure is even possible. Steve Sims (Bluefishing) Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford When you think of success , I assume what comes to mind isn t near national tragedy with a potential death toll in the thousands. And yet, there s the story of Hartford, [ ]