Author: Rick Gamble

It’s not a misatke. Aoccdrnig to a rsereach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the…

Everybody thought Peter Hodgson was crazy when he started selling what would come to be known as Silly Putty.

When Mahatma Ghandi wanted to give his country a thirst for freedom, he used salt. 

By their own admission, the men who devised the modern I.Q. test weren’t very smart about it.

What goes up must come down, but not always right away. Consider the case of the human hailstones. As most of us learned in grade…

Forgive me, but this week’s parable might just make an ass (donkey) of you. In this story about donkeys in Ethiopia, there are great parallels…

Let’s put the emphasis on the cat in catechism, a fancy word that simply means religious instruction. We can learn a lot about faith from…

Their buzz-saw song is part of summer’s soundtrack. On a hot day, the long, loud cry of the cicada cuts through the quiet with an…

Let the blood. That used to be the solution to almost every medical problem. Bloodletting was the practice of cutting into a patient’s arm and…

They put the fun in funambulism. Tightrope walking is from the Latin words funis (rope) and ambulare (walk). The art was practiced in ancient Egypt…