Lifestyle and Recreation

January 1st, 2010

Busted!

The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters go ballistic

By M.B. Roberts

Did you know that alligators live in the sewers of New York City? Hundreds of them. Speaking of New York City, did you know that if someone dropped a penny from the top of the Empire State Building, it would penetrate the skull of someone walking on the sidewalk below?

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January 1st, 2010

Snack Roll

Be careful what you drive when passing by the woods

by Lauren Margolis

These furry food foragers in Yosemite National Park let the RVs and compact cars pass with barely a second look, but when a minivan starts rolling down their roads, the park bears pounce. Officials speculate that most minivan drivers are families with children who keep a generous supply of juice boxes, cereal and other food on hand. The scents waft…

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October 28th, 2009

Food To Go

Planting a farm in a pickup truck

By Tim Ghianni

Most truck farmers harvest their produce in the field, then load it up in their vehicle to transport to market. Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney approached the whole idea a little differently. These 29-year-old Yale grads went straight to the truck, creating a farm in the bed of a gray 1986 Dodge Ram pickup parked on Van Brunt Street in…

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October 28th, 2009

Get Moo-ving

The introduction of cow-powered trucks

There are some 90,000 plus dairy operations located throughout the U.S. Someday, these farms could also be producing fuel to run their trucks and generate electricity to power dairy operations. The nation’s first “cow-powered” trucks were unveiled earlier this year. These trucks, which normally run on diesel fuel, were modified to run on clean-burning biomethane. Biomethane is a renewable fuel,…

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October 28th, 2009

Old Kids on the Block

A personal collection of antique trucks and memorabilia goes up for auction in New Hampshire

By Chuck Miller

A rare 1947 Mack FW truck, one of only 63 ever manufactured by Mack in that year, sold for $29,000 in an auction that both celebrated one of the largest private collections of trucks and service vehicles and helped raise money for scholarships and trust funds. On a sunny Saturday in July, bidders and collectors from all over the U.S.…

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