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Buying An Ice Cream Truck
An ice cream truck? Does anybody do that anymore? You bet! Tim has been making a living as an ice...
National Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
When you spill milk, the best thing you can do is just wipe it up and go get yourself another...
Checklist Day
Image Credit: Checklists.com October 30th is a day to remind you to check your lists. That's right, it's Checklist Day!...
National Whiner’s Day
Image Credit: 5 Recipes For Life Life is just not fair, is it? There are going to be days, months,...
Best Portable Ice Makers
Are you going on a vacation that's going to involve a lot of activity in the hot summer sun and...
How To Make Home Fries
If you've ever been at a sit-down breakfast restaurant, you've likely seen some variation of "Home Fries" on the menu....
How Many Humans Can Earth Support?
Does Earth have a maximum sustainable population? If you know enough to apply some rule-of-thumb reasoning to ecological systems, you...
My Favorite Sushi Recipes
When most people think of sushi, they typically think of raw fish wrapped in rolls. Traditional sushi is actually quite...
Non-Canonical Books of Oz
There are forty books in the official Oz "Canon" but there are many more charming tales about Dorothy and her...
The Date To Create
Image credit: Mothers of Preschoolers If you've been waiting for a specific date to create something, your wait is over....
Choose Your Chocolate
Chocolate is so popular as a snack and a dessert that you might think it is as unhealthy as any...
Jump Ropes
image credit: TLC/HowStuffWorks You might remember jumping rope as a kid. You had lots of fun competing with friends to...
Ask A Stupid Question Day
Image credit Perpetually Peeved So you might have heard the quote, "There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers." Only,...
Creative Uses for Toothbrushes
So you're sick of having to throw away old toothbrushes. You know they're just going into the landfill and you're...
National Puppy Day
What could possibly be cuter than a day to celebrate puppies? On March 23, you can do exactly that with...
Radio Delilah
Spend your evenings with Delilah! Delilah is the number-one radio personality working in the field today. Across the country, people...
Cheers!
Where Everybody Knows Your Name... This popular sitcom, which ran from 1982-1993, still holds a special place in sitcom fans'...
Mars One and Me
Me with astronaut Doug Wheelock I watch my sister fiddle with an expensive camera between complaints about the complexity of...
Math 2.0 Day
(image credit: ProsperYourMind) What is Math 2.0 Day? Scheduled for July 8th, it's a day to get people interested in...
Mars One Finalizes Media Deal
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Mars One just announced this morning that they've finalized a deal with a production company called...
iRobot Roomba And Scooba
Your time is valuable. If you don't have much time to spare with housekeeping or just plain detest it, iRobot...
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
She's been the subject of books, games, a cartoon, and two game shows and has her own website, Twitter and...
Accident Of History
One proposed Mars One flag. Image credit Joseph Sweeney I might have mentioned in other articles that it's a complete...
Down To 706 People
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg It has been nearly a week since my last proper blog entry, but I have not...
“The Right to Due Process and Trial by Jury”
Serving on a jury is a pain, isn't it? You have to explain to your employer that you got selected...
The Right to Face One’s Accusers
Image credit: DonObservs So you might have read "The Count of Monte Cristo." The fellow who becomes the Count...
The Right to Equal Opportunity Regardless of Race or Sex
If you're an employer, you probably know how difficult it is to find a truly good employee. You might have...
“The Right to Equal Protection Under the Law Regardless of Race, Creed, Colour, or Country of Origin”
So here's a tricky case for you. You're serving on a jury and some black teenager is brought in, wearing...
“The Right to Vote for Representational Government”
Image credit Minn Post If you go to the polling place in Woodford County, Illinois, on Election Day, you might...
“The Right to be Free of Arbitrary Arrest or Long Imprisonment Without Trial”
Image credit: Revolutionary War and Beyond So you hear about somebody who has practically gotten caught red-handed while murdering a...
“The Right to be Free of Chattel Slavery”
Image Credit Yah's People Sometimes when I walk through the halls of Illinois Central College, I see one of the...
The Right to be Free of Warrantless Searches
Image credit Political Chips So you've got a couple of police officers knocking at your door and they want to...
The Right to a Comprehensive Legal System Based on Justice and Equity
Image credit Northern Universal Languages Do you ever hear about how certain types of people are disproportionately sentenced to longer...
The Right To Own Property
Image credit: Secrets of the Fed You own a nice home in the suburbs. The biggest nuisances involved are keeping...
The Right To Self-Government by Direct Voting
Image credit My Cute Graphics So we're all going to Mars. Well, maybe not all of us, but enough of...
The Right to Access to Means of Mass Communication
Image credit OECD If you're reading this, you probably take for granted that you can hop onto the Internet at...
“The Right to Knowledge of All Government Activities”
Image credit Federation of American Scientists If you’ve followed the Edward Snowden thing, you probably wouldn’t be too surprised to...
“The Right To All Scientific Knowledge”
Image Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists So you probably take it for granted that science has a way of weeding...
The Right to be Free of Involuntary Military Service
Did you serve time in the military? If so, I bet it wasn't exactly fun, especially if you got deployed...
The Right to Immigrate or Emigrate
What a typical day at Ellis Island looked like. Image credit Wikipedia Have you ever thought of moving out of...
“The Right To Invent and Implement New Technologies”
Image credit Clker Are you the inventor of a brand-new way to feed orphaned kittens? Those little guys sure are...
The Right to Privacy
Image credit Hackaday If you are an American and haven't heard of Edward Snowden by now, you've been living with...
“The Right To Build, Develop Natural Resources and Improve Nature”
A proposed underground Martian colony. Image credit Oracle Talk So you just bought a huge hill covered with grass and...
The Right To Practice Any Profession
Image credit Greenville County School District Do you remember how you used to dream about being an astronaut, actor or...
The Right To Opportunity for Useful Employment
Image credit Calhoun Schools Have you ever worked as a burger flipper at McDonald's? Statistics show that half of all...
Inspiration Mars
Image credit: Inspiration Mars Any Aspiring Martian who hasn’t been living with his head in the sand is going to...
“The Right To Initiate Enterprises”
Image credit Best Clip Art Blog So you've built up a pretty good cupcake business. Hardly a day goes by...
“The Right To An Education Free Of Bureaucratic Brainwashing”
Image credit: Conservative Warriors The right to an education is a hot topic for any country that does not want...
“The Right to Form Families and Have Children”
Families on Mars? Sure -- once we get everything to the point where we can support it. Image credit: Gizmodo...
The Right To Bear Arms
Image credit: Free Clipart Now So gun control has been a hot topic here in America lately. I’ve heard views...
