Image the price of a yearly subscription to the National Geographic magazine multiplied by many years. You’ve seen them in second hand book shops in…
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http://fora.tv/embedded_player I keep thinking of REM’s song “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” Learning from our past…
Artist Russell Walks has embarked on a captivating endeavor to infuse life into the otherwise mundane periodic table. Through his remarkable creation, the "Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements.
How will people judge us in one hundred years from now? The following video was taken on April 14, 1906, four days before the great…
The Way the Future Was by great Science Fiction writer Frederik Pohl has morphed into a blog. The writer was coaxed into writing a blog…
Tea is quite a unique beverage in many quarters. In North America, the tea party symbolizes a revolution to the old ways of the England…
The tallest buildings of the future are mostly either delayed or canceled due to lack of money. Nimrod will have to wait before he can…
I am amazed at the color names introduced each school year. Crayola began with eight colors in 1903 and is up to 120 as of…
This little gem got under the radar. Andre Schiffrin collects the pre-Seuss classic editorial cartoons. True Seuss collectors will enjoy this book precursor to the…
Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Mississippi celebrated along Martin Luther King Day. Go figure. Time…