In my humble opinion, the McDonald’s sundae is the perfect companion for a road-trip.
It tastes like ice-cream. But because of some miracle of food science, it doesn’t melt like ice-cream. As long as the car isn’t too hot inside, it might last thirty or forty minutes.
On a long…
There are three words you never want to hear after giving someone a present:
“You shouldn’t have!”
Translation: “That is the ugliest and most useless [fill in the blank] I’ve ever seen.”
Based on a recent study, the average adult receives about $60 worth of unwanted gifts per year. That…
There’s nothing like being stuffed into a tin can for eight hours to make you think about the future.
The tin can I’m referring to is a United flight I took from LA to NYC.
The trip should have taken about five hours. But after take-off was delayed because of…
The history of tequila goes back two thousand years.
That’s when the Aztec Indians figured out how to ferment juice from the blue agave plant.
It was created as a ceremonial drink that had the power to comfort…
Peter Lynch was a rock-star investor.
During his thirteen years at the helm of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund, he racked up 29% annual returns.
To put that in perspective, a $50k investment during that time would have grown to $1.4 million.
How did he do it?
And more importantly, how can…
“Maybe it’s your bony elbows,” said my wife.
She was busy throwing out a bunch of my sweaters, just like she does every fall.
You see, after a year or two of wear, holes emerge in the elbows of my sweaters. And as my wife has suggested, the likely culprit…
Avatar, James Cameron’s epic science-fiction movie, was released in 2009.
It was meant to be in theaters ten years earlier. But according to Cameron, the technology he needed to achieve his vision just wasn’t available back then.
But once the technology was available — boom! Avatar soon became the highest-grossing…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “Science and Technology Directorate” (S&T) Group recently developed something new:
A robotic arm that could defuse a bomb.
Here’s what it looks like:
S&T had some help…
It developed the arm with…
Bruce Springsteen, Charlie’s Angels, and the Boston Celtics.
Those were the posters that covered the walls of my room when I was a teenager.
The crown jewel of the house, however, was in the kitchen — an original poster from the 1969 Woodstock music festival.
Are the rich really so different from everyone else?
After all, we all put on our pants one leg at a time. And no one’s immune to nuisances like the common cold or hangovers.
But in at least one important way, the rich really are different.
Today, I’ll explain how…
