Somebody Put A Big Pumpkin Way Up On Top Of A Cornell University Tower
Today in 1997, a very gourd day on the campus of Cornell University: people found a very large pumpkin on top of McGraw Tower, 173 feet in the air.
In Iceland, People Help Baby Puffins By Throwing Them Off Cliffs
Around this time of year, volunteers on the Westman Islands, off Iceland's southern coast, are on puffling patrol, trying to help lost baby puffins get to sea by tossing them off cliffs. As one does.
Winning The Nobel Prize Is Hard, Calling Someone To Tell Them They Won The Nobel Prize Can Also Be Hard
Today in 2020, the Nobel Foundation tried to call a Stanford professor to tell him he'd won the Economics Prize... except that he was asleep with his phone in Sleep Mode! Fortunately they found a good workaround.
Grows Gigantic Pumpkins
Congrats to Travis and his pumpkin, named Michael Jordan.
Why Audiences Throw Things At The Stage, Though Obviously They Shouldn’t
Today in 1883, a bizarre headline in the New York Times: “Actor Demoralized By Tomatoes.” Why have audiences thrown tomatoes and other foods at performers?
Farming Robots Are Weeding The Fields With Lasers
If you have fields, you almost certainly have weeds. Pulling them can take a lot of time or money, but farmers now have a new way to make that part of the job a lot easier: a weed-zapping robot that uses lasers.
The Microwave Oven Was Sort Of An Accident
Today is the anniversary of the day the first consumer microwave oven went on sale, back in 1955. But the microwave has roots that go back well before that, and it's at least in part a byproduct of radar technology from World War II.
Nice looking watermelons we’ve got here
Very pumpkin-y
It’s All Pumpkin Spice From Here On Out
Summer is through, which means the start of our annual time to consume and/or complain about products flavored with pumpkin spice. It was in the mid-90s that this blend of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves started its rise to power, and there's no stopping it now, really.
Pumpkin Pierce
Your move, Millard Fillmore.