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February 2013

February 14, 2013

How to Write a Love Letter and Salvage Valentine’s Day (A Guide for Men)

If you’ve waited until today to make plans you’ll find yourself at the Quik-E-Mart fighting...

February 05, 2013

Second Graders Learn Grammar by Correcting the Tweets of Pro Football Players

Elmwood Franklin School's second grade students applied their lessons in proper sentence structure, noun and...

February 04, 2013

I Was Watching a Commercial and a Football Game Broke Out

Football fans like me (How ’bout them Cowboys?) like to think the sport is more...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Teenagers Spend Too Much Time Around Teenagers

From an interview with psychologist Robert Epstein, author of The Case Against Adolescence: Teens in...

January 24, 2013

Are Your Pants Lying to You?

Note to men: Your pants have been deceiving you for years: The pants manufacturers are...

January 18, 2013

The Art of Pickpocketing

Apollo Robbins is is widely considered the best in the world at what he does,...

January 15, 2013

Almost Half of the World’s Food is Thrown Away

Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate since there were starving people...

January 15, 2013

You Are Most Likely to Die at 11 a.m.

A new study, published in the Annals of Neurology, that identifies a common gene variant...

January 14, 2013

The World’s Most Emotional Countries

Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on,...

January 11, 2013

The U.S. is Not as Violent as You Think

Since the shooting in Newtown there has been hundreds of articles written about guns, gun...

January 11, 2013

Babies in the Womb Begin Learning Language from Their Mothers

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and...

January 10, 2013

Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be

Somewhere an 87 year old man is looking back on his life and saying to...

January 10, 2013

Medieval Churches with Stained Glass Were Photocatalytic Air Purifiers

A researcher has found that tiny gold particles found in medieval gold paint reacted with...

January 09, 2013

Jerry Seinfeld Explains How to Write a Joke

The comedian describes the anatomy of his Pop-Tart joke and shows his longhand writing process.

January 08, 2013

Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You

For any network where some people have more friends than others, it’s a theorem that...

January 08, 2013

Why Ancient Romans Never Dreamed of Being Video Game Designers

Many of the dream jobs of the 21st century, says Kevin Kelly, were created by...

January 07, 2013

Pastors Who Didn’t Make the Cut

From a church search committee report: The following is a confidential report on several candidates...

January 07, 2013

Apple Products Account for 14 Percent of All Crime in NYC

If you go to NYC, guard your iPhone carefully: The NYPD has released statistics that...

January 03, 2013

Where Can Silence Be Heard?

Audio ecologist Gordon Hempton defines silence as “the complete absence of all audible mechanical vibrations,...

January 02, 2013

The Wilderness of Childhood

Novelist Michael Chabon wonders whether denying children the freedom to roam is stifling their imaginations:...

January 02, 2013

Autoantonymy

Justin E. H. Smith on words that can mean either one thing or its opposite: Antonyms,...

January 02, 2013

Was the Alaska Purchase a Good Deal?

When Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867,...

January 01, 2013

The Greatest Force is Love

Jeffrey Wright uses wacky experiments to teach children about the universe, but it is his...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

“Models Are the Most Physically Insecure Women”

‎"If you're ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be...

December 10, 2012

The 50 Most Influential Native-Born Religious Figures in American History

In response to his own question, "What is America?", G.K. Chesterton replied, "a nation with...

December 04, 2012

Lincoln’s Five-Legged Dog: An Realist Argument Against Redefining Marriage

Timothy Dalrymple recently wrote a provocative post listing "Ten Things I Believe About Evangelicals and...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

The 11 Most Annoying Catchphrases

A couple of years ago, researchers at Oxford University compiled a list of the top ten...

November 21, 2012

Thirty Three Things (Video Edition)

1. The Trunk Monkey Combing two things all men love: cars and monkeys. °°°°°° 2....

November 16, 2012

The Built-In Human Expiration Date

In the book of Genesis it notes that the human lifespan is limited to a maximum...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Outtakes 10.26.12

• Even on a blog dedicated to sharing items of interest and quirky reflections on...