On the back of so many old stretch limousines, a small chrome “boomerang” juts up from the rear quarter like a piece of abstract sculpture. It looks decorative, even a little mysterious, which is why ...

In an episode of “The Simpsons”, Homer leaves his longtime job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to pursue his dreams of being a professional bowler. A short time later, reality sets in and he ...

The boomerang exists in the popular imagination as a playful tool connected with the Aboriginals of Australia, but its oldest known example hails from a cave in southern Poland that was used as a ...