If Winter Is Your Thing, Try Staying At An Ice Hotel (Cool Weird Awesome 932)
There’s still plenty of winter to go. But if plenty of winter still isn’t enough, there’s a way to level up: staying at an ice hotel.
Snow Is White In Real Life; In Paintings It Can Be A Different Story (Cool Weird Awesome 453)
Snow gets its white color because of the way light and color work - but in paintings, artists use a few other tones to make their snowscapes look more realistic and more interesting. Plus: why a New York City department store once tried to sell chips of 100,000 year old ice.
Tree friend
My tender hearted kindergartner is making sure the backyard trees won’t be weighed down by too much snow.
Tony’s Sasquatch Hunters Club Evening Meeting Cancelled
Winter storms make everything harder.
Jimmy Carter Vs. The Swamp Rabbit (Cool Weird Awesome 280)
Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, [...]
Boston’s Mayor Once Wanted To Clear Snow With Flamethrowers (Cool Weird Awesome 221)
On this day in 1948 of the mayor of Boston, James Curley, wrote to the president of MIT, asking that the school's top engineers find a way to get rid of the huge amounts of snow, maybe with flamethrowers. Seriously.
Winnipeg, The Slurpee Capital Of Canada (Cool Weird Awesome 197)
As we get ready for the official start of winter, it's worth noting that some of us deal with this time of year in unusual ways. Like the people of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who spend their cold, cold winters drinking Slurpees. Plus: on this Star Wars premiere day, a visit to a German observatory painted to look like R2-D2.
Sledding
The sledding was good, the laughs were many, the boots occasionally flew off in mid-course.
Unfinished Business
We're starting 2013 with the stuff we didn't get done in 2012