Life is short - begin every day with a smile!
If you’ve ever looked through a stack of old photographs from the 19th and early 20th century you surely noticed something very odd…
None (or at least very few) of the people in those vintage photos were smiling.
In fact, they all looked like their spouse had just left them and took the beloved family dog with them.
So what’s up with that? Was life in those times so difficult that people just didn’t feel happy enough to smile? [Read more…]
Question from Teresa: I was visiting my mom the other evening and we decided to sit on her back porch for a while.
We both sat down in metal chairs. Her chair had a cushion on it, but mine didn’t.
My chair was so cold that I couldn’t stand it so I got up and switched to a wooden chair.
I noticed right away that the wooden chair was a lot warmer than the metal one even though both chairs were sitting side by side in the shade.
That got me curious about why the metal chair was so much cooler than the wooden one. Can you explain it? [Read more…]
Question from Lisa: I was eating dinner at a restaurant the other day and they were showing a ball game on a wall-mounted TV.
The game was being broadcast with Closed Captioning on.
That got me to to wondering if there’s such a thing as “Open Captioning”. Is there?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Kevin: I read something the other day that said Greenland is the largest island in the world.
But Australia is a lot bigger than Greenland, right? Something doesn’t add up.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Jack: I was researching an idea I had for generating my own electric power when I saw something that piqued my interest.
It was a YouTube video of a guy demonstrating a gadget he had built that supposedly creates free energy that will never run out.
In the video it appeared that the machine worked like he said it would, but I’m not convinced that it’s real. Do you think it could be? [Read more…]