March 2016 – the quick Sliver

3.25.16 Sweet Science

March 25, 2016 Mike Keeler

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Here’s the Sweet Science of Easter Sunday. Up until 1847, confections and candies were made in loose bits and chunks, and were custom-bagged and sold by weight. But in that year, Joseph Fry of Bristol, UK, discovered that he could use cocoa butter to bind cocoa powder and sugar into…

3.18.18 Killer Fish

March 18, 2016 Mike Keeler

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This is a fish story. And it’s killer. It’s about a thing known as “the monster fish,” “Frankenfish,” and “Fishzilla.” It is actually a member of the Channidae family of predatory fish native to Asia and Africa. When young, if feeds on plankton, insects and small mollusks. But it grows…

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3.4.16 KIRO

March 4, 2016 Mike Keeler

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Thanks to a forbidden communications tactic, your ears can now travel through time. Back in the late 1930’s, CBS Radio affiliate KIRO in Seattle had a problem. Each night, the CBS network broadcast the day’s news live from New York, scheduled for maximum impact to listeners in the Eastern Time…

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