The University of Florida researcher who invented Gatorade in 1965 has died at the age of 80, according to this article in The Statesman. The article doesn't mention the first occasion when football players dumped a huge cooler of the stuff over their coach's head, but I'm sure someone out there remembers it ( Read more... )

I will try not to see this unusual cold snap on my 40th birthday as some kind of sign. Likewise, the microburst and tornado that accompanied my visit to Kansas over Thanksgiving ( Read more... )