| Adam Gopnik: What happens when vegetables watch TV? (The New Yorker) |
| Jonathon Keats—a San Francisco-based experimental philosopher who has, over the years, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of space-time proposed by string theory (he sold a hundred and seventy-two extra-dimensional lots in the Bay Area in a single day); made an attempt to . . . |
| 03/07/2010 |
| Memphians among female pilots whose WWII service is honored (Memphis Commercial Appeal) |
| WASHINGTON -- Martha McKenzie Carpenter of Memphis flew off to war with a puppy in her lap, towing targets for other U.S. pilots to shoot. Betty Fernandes of Memphis recalled having carburetor trouble over the Great Lakes and almost having to ditch her airplane.The two were among the roughly 300 survivors of the 1,074 Women Airforce Service Pilots who received Congressional Gold Medals at the ... |
| 03/10/2010 |
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