Extras
The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
Bitcoin: Currency of the future?
Recently you mentioned bitcoin as a popular medium of exchange in the deep, dark Web. A couple friends have tried to get me to invest in bitcoin because it’s supposedly […]
Can bad GPS directions kill you?
Are there any figures for people seriously injured or even killed by bad GPS directions? I’m not talking about distracted drivers, but rather schlubs that followed GPS off a cliff […]
Miss America = success?
No Miss America led a truly Dismal life. Instead, the continuum started at Meh and up through Modest and Successful to Star.
Moon meteors: Visible or no?
NASA has asked the scientists operating the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, now mapping the moon’s surface, to take a picture of the March 17 crater, and they expect to get around to it later this year.
Do goats really eat dynamite and explode?
The earliest account we could find of a dynamite-eating goat was an 1899 story from a Boston newspaper relating a New Mexico mining-camp yarn in which a voracious specimen allegedly ate 27 sticks.