While “top-secret” may bring to mind memories of a jet-setting, James Bond, “shaken, not stirred, variety,” not all duties for top-secret jobs parallel the exciting lives of spies and secret agents featured in mainstream media and cinematography.
Still, there is something to be said for mystery and a job that in some instances can really […]
During the Cold War the U.S military conducted secret germ warfare experiments on unwitting human subjects. In 1951, army scientists released supposedly harmless micro-organisms at the Norfolk Naval Supply Center in Virginia. Similar experiments on how bacteria might spread among the wider population were carried out at Washington National Airport in 1965. The traveling public […]
In spite of the official boycott, there is one commercial flight a day between Miami International and Havana, Cuba. However, there’s no point in looking for details about the flight and certainly no way that you could book yourself onto it. The daily USA to Cuba flight does not appear on any information boards or […]
When, on 30 June, 1908, a mysterious explosion flattened around half a million acres of forest near the Podkamennay Tunguska River in central Siberia, Russia, the blast could be heard up to 500 miles away and eyewitnesses reported seeing a shining object in the sky, moving toward the earth. What caused the explosion and why […]
The best way to survive the attack of a shark is to avoid it. So don’t swim in any waters where sharks are likely to also swim and certainly don’t swim where there’s low visibility and/or no lifeguard on duty. Also remember that sharks feed at night.
If you must swim where sharks are known […]
In terms on non-stickability and even control of heat, cast iron is the best material for a frying pan, closely followed by heavyweight aluminum. Stainless steel is the worst.
Non-stick frying pans have a much shorter life than you might expect: when even slightly worn, overheating can cause the surface to release potential carcinogens, noxious gases, […]
