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Strange but True: October 2007
[Oct. 30, 2007] Question: In the GREAT TUG-OF-WAR of human affairs, does the good or the bad have the edge?
Strange but True - December '06
[Dec. 16, 2006] QUESTION: Imagining the old expression "If I had all the money in the world, I would..." were taken literally, how much would you have? What might you buy?
Strange but True
[Aug. 18, 2006] Q. Ever had a taste for regurgitated bee spit? —M. Condon
A. You have if you like honey. To make a pound of it requires some 60,000 nectar loads, or four million flower visits by individual bees, totaling 100,000 miles or more, says May Berenbaum in Bugs in the System.
Strange but True - June '06
[Jun. 23, 2006] Question: Discovered by airmen during World War II, these move at up to 370 km/hour (230 mph) at heights from 10-15 kilometers (6-9 miles), in narrow bands where the troposphere meets the stratosphere. Their energy comes from the heat differential from equator to poles, bestowing this planetary "free ride in the sky," averaging 100 mph in winter, 50 in summer. What are they, and what was their role in the War?
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