News of the Week: A Search for Quiet, Controversial Bread, and ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ at 60
In the news for the week ending October 9, 2020, are a masked marvel, a sugary bread, an annoying noise, a confirmed myth, and much more.
In the news for the week ending October 9, 2020, are a masked marvel, a sugary bread, an annoying noise, a confirmed myth, and much more.
In the news for the week ending April 17, 2020, are the disappearance of handshakes, the return of milkmen, the absence of emoji, the abundance of bad habits, and more.
In the news for the week ending April 10, 2020, are a lot of cooking and zooming, not a lot of baseball and toilet paper, and much more.
There is (finally) some snow in the news, for the week ending January 11, 2019, as well as accurate tech predictions from the 1990s, a new holiday, a smart toilet, and more.
In the news for the week ending October 26, 2018, are a Christmas wish list, Halloween movies, game show references, Titanic replicas, and much more.
A life-or-death drama in an ICU helped one physician realize medicine is not just a craft and a science, but also an art.
It All Began with Ben Franklin In 1728, 22-year-old Benjamin Franklin came up with an idea for an informative magazine for the colonies. It would be titled The Pennsylvania Gazette. Before he could begin production, though, the idea and name were stolen by an unscrupulous partner. The partner began publishing the magazine, but, within the […]
We bid farewell to telephone culture, soda jerk lingo, and Miss America swimsuits. We also share lists of the best books and worst jobs.
In the news for the week ending May 18, 2018, are a bunch of new old TV shows, an auditory illusion, a prom tiger, cold soup, Sinatra and Seinfeld, and much more.
Humans have been turning 13 for tens of thousands of years, but only recently did it occur to anybody that the bridge between childhood and adulthood deserved its own name.
In the news for the week ending October 6, 2017, are Dr. Seuss at the library, Megyn Kelly on TV, Santa Claus in a crypt, and much more.
These moms from the ‘40s and ‘50s sure put up with a lot of guff, but they can’t help having soft spot for their sons.
Artist Coby Whitmore was a master when it came to illustrating the idealized post-World War II relationships the public was so eager to see.
Once, the land line telephone was our primary link to the outside world, and between calls (which was most of the time), we were blissfully alone.
Americans tell their personal and family stories about how life changed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Do you have a story to share?
Words we wish we could say good-bye to in 2016, commemorative Star Trek stamps, and weird memes all in this week’s pop culture roundup.