Benito Cereno

Apr 2, 2024 | grunge.com | Benito Cereno

Humans love fast food. And what's not to love? It's food, fast. Sure, it's typically not the healthiest option, but it's hot food that you didn't have to cook. You may not have had to even leave your car. That's a pretty good deal, and a fast food restaurant discovered in ancient Pompeii proves that the phenomenon vastly predates the founding of the first McDonald's or White Castle. But with the wide variety of available fast food options, how will you know which drive-through to drive through?

Mar 26, 2024 | grunge.com | Benito Cereno

Each year around Presidents' Day, the public receives the results of polls that tally various historians' opinions of those who have served as commander-in-chief, ranking those presidents from best to worst. Certain presidents tend to haunt the same rough positions on the list from year to year, with the top three sometimes changing order, but rarely moving down in the ratings. The math would seem to suggest that those are America's greatest presidents.

Mar 4, 2024 | grunge.com | Benito Cereno

Solar eclipses are thrilling, spectacular events. They only happen because of a wild, cosmic coincidence — namely that the moon is both about 400 times smaller and 400 times closer than the sun, and so when the moon's orbital path crosses the sun's, the moon's shadow causes parts of the Earth below to grow dark, while looking like the Sun and Moon are both the same size.

Feb 29, 2024 | grunge.com | Benito Cereno

The British royal family are international celebrities, with many people from all over the world fully aware of the ins and outs of their personal relationships and disagreements, thanks to extensive tabloid coverage and dramatizations such as "The Crown." Between their being the immediate family of the British head of state and their status as just extremely famous (and often controversial) people, the higher-ranking (or "senior") members of the royal family require close, around-the-clock...

Feb 17, 2024 | grunge.com | Benito Cereno

Charles Manson and his so-called "Family," a hippie cult and criminal gang that haunted the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas in the late 1960s and early 1970s, are renowned as some of the most notorious killers in American history.