In 1953, a young newspaper delivery boy received a nickel that seemed suspiciously light. Worried he’d been scammed, he tested it by throwing it onto the ground. The top of the nickel face popped off, revealing a hidden compartment. Inside, the boy discovered a tiny coded message, a long string of numbers that fit on the tip of his [...]
International airports are multilingual and multicultural places by nature, but no matter where you are in the world, you're likely to hear English inside a plane. But this goes past the familiar airline phrases – "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking" and "The seatbelt sign is on," and goes more specifically into the plane's cockpit. All pilots [...]
One of modern civilization’s most commonly used tools sits just beneath our fingertips, as our keyboards provide us with an arsenal of approximately 80 numbers, letters, and commands, all ready to do our bidding. For those of us who utilize the Roman alphabet (approximately 70% of all major languages), we press these keys in various combinations and assemble the [...]
