emeco: a look at the indestructible chair commissioned by the US navy in 1940 that could withstand the blast of a torpedo
columbo: US ambassador to the Holy See, Callista Gingrinch, returns a pilfered letter penned by Christopher Columbus to the Vatican Libraryfjallkona: Iceland picks a drag queen to be its national personification, the Lady of the Mountain
flare-up: periodically the Sun erupts
jankó layout: an alternative keyboard to the traditional piano format
pitchforks: main-stream media is ignoring the protests of poor peoples in the US
x-ray vision: Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers harness ambient radio signals and WiFi to see through walls