When theBeach Boyswere inducted into theRock & Roll Hall of Famein 1988,Mike Lovedelivered a speech that was one for the ages. Even now, he realizes that it's a moment that will be part of their history forever. During his infamous speech, he called outPaul McCartneyfor being absent th...
A brand of brushless shaving cream called Burma-Shave was the first of its kind to hit it big with the public. That popularity was more than likely due to a brilliant advertising campaign along American roadways. In 1963, the company was acquired by Phillip Morris, which began removing Burma...
When populations have high levels of immunity, “it favors [variants] that have some sort of escape mutation that doesn’t throw a monkey wrench in the transmission side of things,” said Michael Worobey, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. Now, you may be wond...
Because I’m an idiot who decided my cow needed a break from the non-stop-birth-plan, we have ourselves in a pickle. She had a perfect little cycle going. She was on a 6 year rhythm. She was in her baby-cow-makin’ groove. Which I just threw a giant monkey wrench in. Because ...
(WGA) which is largely responsible for many of wheat’s pervasive, and difficult to diagnose, ill effects. Researchers are now discovering that WGA in modern wheat is very different from ancient strains. Not only does WGA throw a monkey wrench into our assumptions about the primary causes of ...
Bush. The law recognized a fetus in utero as a victim of criminal attacks when an assault on a pregnant woman results in injury or death of her and the unborn child and called for a perpetrator in such an instance to be charged with two acts of violence. The law clearly stated it did...
For all we’ve done it seems we have called down upon ourselves to be tested and to be found either worthy, or deserving of the grave we’re digging. The chapter coming up, “Love’s Wake-Up Call,” goes back and forth between these horrors that are possible and, well, let us say...
My curiosity rose to a whole new level the day I discovered an amazing website called The Baby Name Wizard, and especially their Voyager tool, which lets you plug in a few letters or a whole name and see a visual depiction of its corresponding popularity trends over time. The Voyager is...