LightGramsDecember 1, 2022Volume 26, Number 36 Merriam-Webster, known for their publication of dictionaries of the English language, announced earlier this week their “Word of the Year for 2022”. The word “gaslighting” surprised even the editors, who said that there was no single story in the news that caused interest in the word to peak. The…
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LightGrams August 27, 2020 Volume 24, Number 30 Kirk Mathes had to call deputies to his farm in Barre, New York. A crowd had gathered in a field where a safe had been found. The safe was locked, and a note attached to it said, “If you can open this, you can have what’s inside.”…
LightGrams July 30, 2020 Volume 24, Number 26 There was a heist at an art gallery in Tokyo, Japan earlier this month. Everything on display was taken; not an item was left. All this happened as police stood outside to monitor the large crowd that had gathered. What we’re describing was the “Stealable Art Exhibition”.…
LightGrams November 21, 2019 Volume 23, Number 37 A family in the United Arab Emirates just set a new Guinness record. They have completed the largest handwritten copy of the Bible on record, and it took them 153 days to do it. The wife, Susan Varghese, began the project, but her husband and two children…
LightGrams June 27, 2019 Volume 23, Number 23 Are piggy banks as popular as they once were? Those cute little pigs, made of glass or ceramic, had a slot in the top of their backs into which pennies, nickels, and dimes were dropped. Many a child has been taught the virtue of savings and thrift…
LightGrams March 21, 2019 Volume 23, Number 12 If someone points a bow and arrow at you, do you know what to do? An unnamed man in Melbourne, Australia provides us with a tactic: Hold up your smartphone. In doing that, the arrow pierced through this man’s phone and saved his life. (The phone, however,…
LightGrams October 25, 2018 Volume 22, Number 38 Samuel Herbert is on a campaign to collect 10,000 signatures. His aim is to remove a statue in Buffalo, New York that was unveiled in 1983 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. According to the news story, Herbert already has 6,000 signatures on his petition. It’s…
LightGrams May 17, 2018 Volume 22, Number 18 In 2015 an uproar broke out when a picture of a dress was posted on the Internet. Some saw a gold and white dress; others protested that it was black and blue. There was no definitive answer, we were told; it all depended on who was looking.…
LightGrams November 16, 2017 Volume 21, Number 39 You might say that Charlie Fry is a lucky fellow. He was surfing this past Monday in Australia when he was attacked by a shark. But more than luck was involved; he fought back. He aimed a punch on the nose of the shark, and that was…
LightGrams October 27, 2016 Volume 20, Number 34 “Driverless Vehicles” Passing big rigs on Interstate highways is a common phenomenon. There are so many of those vehicles, you can’t drive ten miles without seeing several. Rarely do I notice the one who is driving the truck; even if I tried, they sit so much higher…