Random links
- Hatchet-wielding hitchhiker saves the day
- This is one story in which "weird" seems like an inadequate description.
- The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married
- "When Eleanor Kolchin worked at IBM in the late 1940s she had to keep her marriage a secret." The exception was if the wife was the breadwinner for the family.
- Print Me a Condo on the Moon!
- Can 3D printers and moon-mining make building a permanent moonbase a lot more feasible? That's what the European Space Agency is exploring.
- We Have No Idea if Africa Is Rising
- The words people are seldom willing to say - 'I don't know.' "Recent [Foreign Policy] contributors have said that Africa is and is not rising. They're both wrong because they don't have the numbers to back it up."
- Brewing Controversy Over Proposal to Make Water Cheaper Than Beer
- The first sentence: "In most restaurants and taverns across the Czech Republic, a mug of beer is, literally, cheaper than water."