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Friday Musing
Benjamin Schreiber Aman of Iowa, who was serving a life sentence for murder, claimed his sentence was fulfilled during his short-lived death after he was rushed from the Iowa State Penitentiary in 2015 to the hospital and his heart was ...
Hot Stuff
I recently read that scientists in Germany have created small zeolite pellets that can store up to four times more heat than water, loss-free, for “lengthy periods of time.” Interesting, but there’s a much cheaper material that does ...
Hell Bent
According to its website, Hell, Michigan is “surrounded by 400 acres of beautiful campgrounds, biking and hiking trails, a chain of lakes and channels, recreational areas for picnics, and so much more.” That’s not the description I heard ...
Time to Evacuate
I don’t like how big storms are named. “Edna Set to Arrive in Charleston on Saturday” sounds like a visit from a kindly old aunt. Old aunts can be scary, but storms are worse. They need to have names that encourage the public to take them ...
Temperatures Rising
One huge advantage of living in Bakersfield is that we don’t have to fear global warming. The way I see it, we’re about 30 degrees (or approximately four million years) ahead of most of the world when it comes to heat-pain ...
