Drive in most of the world and the signs are pictures. A red triangle with a symbol in it warns you about something. A red circle with a line through…
Most Americans drive on these roads for a lifetime without discovering that the numbers mean something. They are treated as names - arbitrary labels that happen to be numerals.
They…
It is one of the small things that produces real confusion rather than amusement. A date written as a string of numbers with a slash between them is ambiguous in…
This is one of the few food questions where two large, wealthy, heavily regulated food systems have arrived at flatly opposite instructions for the same object, and both are correct.…
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It is one of the most vivid shared memories in American life: sitting on the wheel well with your back against the cab, or flat on the ribbed…
The Problem Is That Your Eardrum Has Air on Both Sides
Behind the eardrum is not solid tissue. It is a small sealed cavity full of air, and that is…