Tattoos would never have taken off if Edison’s patented “electric pen” hadn’t paved the way for the first tattoo gun. So it’s only fitting that he had a quincunx, a geometric pattern of five dots, inked on his forearm.
The backs of 1987 Topps baseball cards contained a fun feature: amazing facts about the players! Or in many cases, declarative statements regarding their hobbies (“Candy Maldonado finds traveling an enjoyable experience.”) You learned where players…
We hear a lot of bad stories about cheap tippers and even cruel tippers, but it’s a lot rarer to hear about excessive and genuinely kind tippers. Fortunately, such people are out there.
The short-lived TV comedy Arrested Development will return May 26 with 15 new episodes on Netflix. One of the reasons why Arrested Development had such staying power was its multitude of sight gags, hidden and recurring jokes, and clever wordplay.…
Antidisestablishmentarianism, everyone’s favorite agglutinative, entered the pop-culture lexicon on August 17, 1955, when Gloria Lockerman, a 12-year-old girl from Baltimore, correctly spelled it on The $64,000 Question as millions of people watched…
Every year, Lapland erects a hotel made of ice in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. And every year, when the weather turns warmer, the IceHotel melts back into where it originated: the Torne River.
Language is so deeply embedded in almost every aspect of the way we interact with the world that it’s hard to imagine what it would be like not to have it. What if we didn’t have names for things? What if we didn’t have experience making statements,…
On phonetic grounds, a case can be made for either pronunciation. In English, words beginning with ‘g’ can have a soft (giraffe) or hard (give) pronunciation, and therein lies the problem. Why are there two g’s? And are there any rules governing…
Wikipedia is great when you want to get a quick overview of a subject boiled down to its essence. But did you know you can get it boiled down even further? Simple English Wikipedia was launched in 2003 as a resource for “people with different needs,…
For millennia, artists have been using the human body as a source of inspiration. Many of the creative minds selling through Etsy continue the tradition. Here are some of the more innovative uses of the human body, actual and symbolic, available for…
Jacob Tomsky has worked on the front lines of hotels for more than a decade,…
Who knew that some noises could eventually become as extinct as the passenger…
The 11 Geekiest Tattoos Ever Inked * 24 Library-Centric Sites We Love * 17…
7. North, zero stars. I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this…
Heather Poole has worked for a major carrier for more than 15 years and is the…
Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the…
Your alphabet soup would have looked different had these letters made the cut.
TV doesn’t get much respect. It rots your brain and grows couch potatoes.…
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a…
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Spit out your gum, please. Inside voices. IS THAT A CELL PHONE I SEE?!
Not exactly a feel-good commencement speech from the Commander-In-Chief
Was there a law that every recital costume had to have sequins?
