Snow-making machines actually make tiny beads of ice, each one about one ten-thousandth of an inch in diameter.聽Water is sprayed from a hose together with compressed air.聽The air is needed because...
Just about any subject becomes more interesting with a deeper dive. That is certainly the case for curling, a sport that is a mystery to many and unfortunately often the butt of jokes. However, it...
鈥淭here鈥檚 only one source for this stuff, the adrenalin glands from a living human body.鈥� That bit of misinformation found in Hunter. S Thompson鈥檚 1971 psychedelic classic, 鈥淔ear and Loathing in Las...
I must admit I鈥檓 not sure if the woman is just an intellectual simpleton or a clever charlatan preying on the gullible.聽聽I suspect the former.聽聽In any case, here is the story.聽聽Upon invitation, and...
In 1957, Edward Shapiro filed a patent for a novel type of 鈥渟elf-luminous paint.鈥� The concept was not new, luminous paints based on radioactive emissions from radium striking a phosphor such as...
I started losing respect for Novak Djokovic when I read about how he had concluded that he should adopt a gluten-free diet, long before the fiasco in Australia. Dr. Igor Cetojovic, a fellow Serb,...
