You take a horse on a hot day, and after about five or six miles, that horse has a choice.

The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other, and when anyone was knowing Lincoln was in town, they would come from miles around to listen to him tell stories.

Last week, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the disaster, a group of Polish adventurers decided to turn the lights back on in Pripyat, a radioactive ghost town located three miles from the Chernobyl reactor.

But if you think about this, this is actually the Freakonomics authors wrote about this that more people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

But a thirst for knowledge is useful not only in foreign countries. Indeed, it is critical to gaining insight into the differences and similarities among people of different backgrounds, even those who live just a few towns or miles apart.

We're going to be up there in just a few more weeks, and we expect that it's probably retreated another half a mile, but if I got there and discovered that it had collapsed and it was five miles further back, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.