Travel Wednesday: Detroit Road Trip – Let’s Get it on

The home of cramped, aroma-filled family road trips and awkward teenage make outs, the automobile redefined American culture, travel and industry. At the center of the movement was Detroit, Michigan. The heart of the automotive industry, this Midwestern blast furnace of horsepower and torque was the nexus of modern transportation. So pay your respects as …
Read moreHistory Tuesday: The Invention of Baseball

With the advent of Spring comes the much anticipated opening day of baseball. Baseball is the quintessential American game, so much so that it is linked in a triumvirate with Mom and Apple Pie as the essence of Americana. As April begins, now is the time to start rooting for the home team and dreaming …
Read moreInventor Monday: Eadward Muybridge

If you asked a person on the street who the “father of the motion picture” was, they would probably say Thomas Edison, and they would be somewhat right. Edison did invent a way of recording successive images in a single camera and paved the way for the modern film industry as we know it today. …
Read moreFuture Friday: Why Aren’t Hologram TVs Here Yet?!

People have been dreaming about it since Princess Leia pleaded for Obi-Wan Kenobi’s help, “You’re my only hope.” The hologram is a part of science-fiction history that may be a lot closer to reality than you’d think! Dr. Roel Vertegaal of Queen’s University’s School of Computing in Kingston, Ontario, is on the cutting edge of …
Read moreHow’s That Made Thursday: The Hover Creeper

Not only has it finally started to feel a little bit more like spring, the time when we want everything to look and feel like new, April is National Car Care Month. What better time to find out a little more about an invention that has transformed a common, yet flawed, mechanic’s tool? Today, we …
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