Of cereal and “free” prizes

You’ve seen this before.  This is the more obnoxious older sibling of the “free” toy inside—the mail-in prize.  In this case, you send in proofs of purchase from $24 worth of cereal (or proofs of purchase from $8 worth of cereal, as well as $5), and they send you a $3 radio. The children get … Read more

The ugly aftershocks of Pluto’s demotion

I tell you what: you get these astro-types wound up, and they get one hell of a power trip going. As you know, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto in 2006, reclassifying it as a dwarf planet and instantly obsoleting hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of science fair projects worldwide. So now National Geographic … Read more

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