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At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]

395 years ago yesterday, Pocahontas married John Rolfe, a pious British colonizer who developed the first commercially viable strand of tobacco in the Colony of Virginia. In honor of their joyous union – which ended abruptly in 1616 when Pocahontas died during a pseudo-promotional tour of England with John and their son Thomas - we [...]