HadToHave

If you, too, listened to NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me in the last few weeks, you'll know that the record for solving the Rubik's Cube was recently broken. That is, the record for the slowest solver. Graham Parker took 26 years to solve the cube.If you know anything about the history of the...

I confess: I love to hoop. While I'm not a frequent attendee of the hoop circles held weekly in nearby Laurelhurst Park, I've watched, mesmerized, as my friends hooped circles around me -- literally. Anything that takes such generous use of a girls' hips has to be good, right? Hula hoops are,...

The mood ring may be far out, man, but it has a practical, medical history. The ring was conceived in the 1960s, when Marvin Wernick went to an emergency call with a doctor friend, and watched him use a thermotropic strip to take a child's temperature. Aha! He thought. Jewelry!Strange but true....