“Giant tidal wave hits local town lake”. April Fool’s joke? Probably. “Giant tidal wave hits Chicago”. Joke, right? No. This was the headline of the afternoon edition of the Chicago Daily News on June 26, 1954. I left the house in my beat-up Chevy around 9:00 a.m. on a warm Saturday morning in June 1954…

Oligodendroglioma is a rare tumor that develops in the brain. It is created by cells found in the connective tissue that surrounds nerve cells in the brain. The symptoms that the patient experiences largely depend on the location of the tumor itself. While they are more common in the adult population, these cells have also…

A new Internet phenomenon has emerged in the last two years. Free charity game websites agree to donate to various causes if the visitor is simply willing to play a game online. Games available include simple word definition questions, geography trivia, number memorization, and even crossword questions. The visitor can play as long as they…

You probably use metaphors in your daily speech and you don’t even realize it. Think about it; Have you ever said to a friend or your spouse: “Today I have been worked to the bone” or “I am dead tired”? These are examples of metaphors that we use regularly in conversations. These forms of metaphors…

In recent years, computers have gotten better and better at chess. In 1996, a computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, beat chess master Garry Kasparov in the first game they played, the first time a computer beat the world champion. Despite the fact that Kasparov won the match overall (by three games to one), the game became…

I played at Wolf Creek Golf Links, Inc., located in Olathe, Kansas, a couple of weeks ago in a Kansas City Cup game and I must say it was a very beautiful golf course. We won the match, which may have done a lot better, but I thought I’d post my review of the field…

The color variants of mobile phones are not a new phenomenon, however the new Nokia N79 has found company with another in the range that is a bit different. Rather than simply changing the color of the outer shell, Nokia has gone back a few years to a time when customizing a mobile phone was…

Approximately 56.6 million students attended elementary and high school in the United States in 2019. With the current global COVID-19 pandemic, school districts across the country made the difficult decision to close schools and move on to classes. online due to public health and safety concerns. Parents and caregivers have been tasked with taking a…