Published on: April 7, 2015Traveling has become increasingly tiresome, but as families move farther away from each other and lifestyles become increasingly global, it’s hard to avoid it. Increased security checks and rising luggage fees soured many to what used to be considered a special event. Still, some of those regulations have started to ease […]
Published on: March 3, 2015Teflon – Roy Plunkett The next time you make a frustration-free omelette, thank chemist Roy Plunkett, whose experienced immense frustration while inadvertently inventing Teflon in 1938. Plunkett had hoped to create a new variety of chlorofluorocarbons (better known as universally-despised CFCs), when he came back to check on his experiment in […]
Published on: February 5, 20165.Shell Beach — Shark Bay, Australia The name says it all. This shoreline is home to billions of coquina bivalve shells rather than fine grains of sand. Also, this isn’t coincidentally. The water has a high salt focus that pulls in the shelled creatures. Loading…
