• These Are the Happiest Cities in the United States
• National Geographic Ranks the 25 Happiest Cities in the Country
• The 25 Happiest Cities in the U.S
• Santa Cruz, Boulder, Among the Happiest Cities in the US
• And the Happiest City in America Is…
• And the Country’s ‘Rattiest City’ Is…
Civic Improvement?
• A Beautiful Italian Town Will Pay You up to $2350 to Move There
• Charming Italian Town Will Pay You to Move There
• Google Wants to Run Your City. That’s Not a World We Should Live In
• Amazon Counts Its Suitors: 238 Want to Be Home for 2nd Headquarters
• Amazon Receives 238 Bids for Its Second Head…
Halloween Creep
• After 20 Years, No One Knows How Someone Put a Pumpkin on Cornell’s 173-Foot Spire
• The Fiery Halloween Tradition That Gave Us Bobbing for Apples
• 50 Sweet Facts about Your Favorite Halloween Candies
• Schools Cracking down on ‘Unacceptable’ Halloween Costumes
• Top Halloween Costumes to Avoid This Yea…
Popcorn, Pooh, & People Power
• How a Piece of Popcorn Inspired a Hit Children’s Book
• The 10 Best Children’s Books for Adults
• Children’s Books Roundup: The Best New Picture Books and Novels
• Goodbye Christopher Robin Review: Not-So-Cuddly Biopic Reveals the Sadness Behind Winnie-the-Pooh
• Only Children’s Books wit…
Flying Business
• When Chuck Yeager Tweeted Details About His Historic, Sound Barrier-Breaking Flight
• The Flying Martha Ornithopter, a Winged Mechanical Toy That Soars with the Power of a Rubber Band
• No More Flying with Reindeer: Unique Alaska Planes to Retire
• A Japanese Airline Wants to Make Crying Babies on Planes a Thing of the Pas…
Mother Tongues
• Naming Your Baby in These Foreign Countries Will Give You a Headache
• Parents around the World All Speak “Motherese” to Their Babies
• 6 Traits All Middle Children Share
• Why Your Kids Might Be Able to See Better If They Play Outdoors More Often
• These Are the Best and Wo…
News of the Ancient
• Sweet Potatoes Suggest Easter Island Had More People Than Previously Thought
• Mystery Surrounding Ancient Easter Island People Deepens
• Researchers Unveil an Unusual New Theory for How Easter Island’s Statues Were Made
• Scientists Return from Studying the Lost, Sunken Continent of Zealandia
• ‘Lost Continent’ Expediti…
Long Live Nature
• Why Forests and Rivers Are the Most Potent Health Tonic around
• The Philosophical Appreciation of Rocks in China & Japan: A Short Introduction to an Ancient Tradition
• How the Japanese Practice of Forest Bathing Helps Candice Kumai Stay Grounded
• Ikigai Is the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
• The Latest Longevity H…
Tree Knowledge
• Ancient Tree That Tore Itself Apart Only to Regrow ‘Most Complicated’ Ever Found
• The Life of Johnny Appleseed
• Alarm as Study Reveals World’s Tropical Forests Are Huge Carbon Emission Source
• Tropical Forests Used to Protect Us from Climate Change. Now, Scientists Say, They’re Making It Worse
• Forest Loss Means Tropics…
Street Smarts
• The U.S. Cities with the Worst Traffic Jams for Their Size
• Understanding Highway Hypnosis
• 20 Things You Didn’t Know about Traffic
• What’s the Difference Between a Street, a Road, and an Avenue?
• If You Drive Down a Stretch of Route 66, the Road Will Play “America the Beautiful”
• Interactive Crossing Light…
World of Color
• Disney Has Invented 3D Coloring Books
• Color Psychology: How Colors Affect Human Behavior
• Japanese Internet Can’t Agree on What to Call This Color. What Do You Think It Is?
• The Harvard Library That Protects the World’s Rarest Colors
• Dinosaurs Laid Blue Eggs — And That’s a Big Dea…
Short Story Collections
• 50 Inspiring Quotes about Writing from the World’s Greatest Authors
• Tell a Story in Six Words — Mystery Writers Dare You to Try
• Drama Book Shop Celebrates Its Centennial. But Is It Too Late?
• “15 Short Story Collections Every Guy Should Read”
• “The Man’s Essential Library”
• 5 Classic Novels Everyone Should Read
Funky Foodstuff
• AI Told Coca-Cola to Make Cherry Sprite. So It Did.
• The Bizarre Reason Burger King Wants to Keep It out of Russia
• The Great Wine Debate: Corks Really Are Better Than Screw-Tops, Oxford Study Finds
• Are You Ready for That Jelly? Why It’s Time to Start Eating Jellyfish
• The Gooey History of the Fluffernutter Sandwic…
Join the Marine?
• Fancy a Career Change? Why Not Become a Professional Mermaid?
• Oceanographer’s Ashes Going to Sea Aboard Rescued Sea Turtle
• Rescued Sea Turtle Will Carry Out British Oceanographer’s Ashes to the Deep in Fitting Tribute
• Whistling While They Work: Cooperative Laguna Dolphin…
Unanticipated Arrivals
• Tons of Living Animals Have Floated from Japan to Oregon on Plastic Junk
• Coastal Creatures Are Crossing Oceans Floating on Makeshift Rafts of Plastic Debris, Warn Scientists
• Sea Critters Hitchhiked Across the Pacific on Tsunami Debris
• Debris from 2011 Tsunami Carried Invasive Species to North Americ…
Fall Fun
• Canada Completes World’s Longest Hiking/Biking and Paddling Trail – 14,000 Miles’ Worth
• Journey Across 7 Countries on the World’s Newest Long-Distance Trail
• The Best Things to Do in October Across the U.S
• The Best Places to Travel in October
• 14 Fall Road Trips for Se…
Connect the Dots
• Visually Speaking: 14 Podcasts That Draw out the History of Art
• Discover 3 Incredible Cave Art Sites in Europe
• 15 Things You Should Know about Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Death of Socrates’
• 15 Things You Should Know about Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps’
• Experts Believe Leonardo DaVinci Drew Nude Mona Lis…
Museum Musings
• The Guggenheim Caves to Threats — and Squashes Free Expression
• Selfies in Art Museums
• The Rise of the Made-For-Instagram Museum
• Welcome to the Age of the “Insta-View”: Instagram Interviews Become Popular in Japan
• Man Proposes to His Girlfriend With an Illustration of Him P…
Coffee Quickies
• Starbucks Closes Online Store to Focus on In-Person Experience
• Things You Might Not Know about Denny’s
• Tim Hortons Does Unthinkable, Creates Buffalo Sauce-Flavored Latte
• Start off Your Day with a Hot Cup of Buffalo Wing Coffee
• Is Egg Coffee the New Bulletproof-Style Caffeine Fix?
• Top 10 Japanese School Lu…
Cows and Effect
• Cow Farts Are an Even Bigger Problem Than We Thought
• Intelligent, Inquisitive, Loving: The Secret Life of Cows
• The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young — Review
• How a Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles
• Dutch Startup Wants to Train Crows to Clean Streets of Cigarette Butts
• TV Commercial Depicts Gia…
Sounds Strange
• Dangerous Sound? What Americans Heard in Cuba Attacks
• Mass Hysteria May Explain ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuba, Say Top Neurologists
• First Recording Emerges of High-Pitched ‘Sonic Weapon’ Linked to Attacks on US Embassy Workers in Cuba
• Listen to the Sound That US Diplomats Heard When Attacke…
More Squirrel Talk
• Squirrels Gone Wild: Their Quirky Behaviors Explained
• Why Is That Squirrel Squawking at Me? Deciphering the Chatter
• Squirrels Are Hardwired to ‘Dance’ When a Car’s Coming
• Squirrels Actually Organize Their Nut Hoard — Here’s Why
• Squirrels Sort Their Nuts Like You Sort Your Fridge
• Squirrels Are Probably More Organized Than You, Stud…
A Little Real America
• “Why Does Each State ~?” Google Search Autocomplete Maps
• What US States Want: Google Autocomplete, 2014
• By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
• How Americans Watch TV
• This Is What Dinnertime Really Looks Like Around the US
• The Food Each State Hates th…
A Needle and a Haystack
• Japanese Rice Paddy Art
• Gorgeously Detailed Artistic Masterpieces Grown out of Rice Paddies in Inakadate, Japan
• Giant Straw Animals Invade Japanese Fields after Rice Harvest
• Incredible Animal Sculptures Made out of Rice Straw for the 2017 Wara Art Festival in Northern Japan
• Wara Art Festival 2017 Tim…
The Power of a Nudge
• A Nobel Prize Winner Says Tech Companies Are Misusing Creativity in Their Quest to Change the World
• What’s a Urinal Fly, and What Does It Have to with Winning a Nobel Prize?
• People Like Government ‘Nudges,’ Study Says
• The Flaws a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Wants You to Know about Yoursel…
Ishiguro Wins Nobel
• Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel Prize Winner and a Novelist for All Times
• Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize Win Is Another Year of Disappointment for Haruki Murakami Fans
• Japanese Roots of Nobel Winner Kazuo Ishiguro Celebrated
• Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘There Is a Slightly Chilly Aspect to Writing Fictio…
Just Say No to Overwork
• The Desire for Pregnant Japanese Women to Stay Thin Has Far-Reaching Effects on Their Babies’ Kidneys
• This 31-Year-Old Japanese Journalist Died Holding a Phone after Working 159 Hours of Overtime in a Month
• ‘I’m Physically and Mentally Shattered’: TV Reporter Worked Herself to Death
• Japanese Firm Fined Token…
Brief History
• Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
• Twins of the Apocalypse: What Hiroshima and the Climate Threat Have in Common
• Q&A: Why Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Is Calling an Election
• Shinzo Abe’s Electoral Rival Yuriko Koike Is Vowing to Take down One of Japan’s Greatest Evils — Hay Feve…
Down the Drain
• Why You Should Never Flush Dental Floss Down the Toilet
• Why Is Someone Clogging Swiss Toilets with Tens of Thousands of Euros in Cash?
• Scientists Find Gold Worth $2 Million in Swiss Sewage
• No More Platform No 2s: Train Toilets to Stop Emptying on to Tracks
• The Ghosts of Japanese School Toilet…
Man Conquers World
• How the QWERTY Pattern Became the Industry Standard for Typewriters and Computer Keyboards
• How QWERTY Conquered Keyboards
• How Pinball Machines Are Made
• People Bingo Is a Great Ice Breaker for Adults
• Have Wife Will Carry: Couples Vie in Wife-Carrying Contes…
Have a Nice Trip
• Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night Are Illegal
• Six Things You Might Not Know Are Actually Illegal to Do While Driving
• Seemingly Harmless Things That Can Get You Banned from Disney World
• Disney Has a Secret Code Name for Rude Visitors
• Disneyland Characters Finally Speak to Park-Goer…
Fall Guy
• Debating a Holiday
• Why the Legend of Christopher Columbus Is a Lie
• 10 Alternatives to Columbus Day Celebrated around the Country
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Christopher Columbus
• Today Is a Holiday in Honor of the World’s Most Remarkable Alphabet
• 12 Halloween Traditions f…
DNA and Durian
• Cancer Scientists Sniff Out the Genes Behind Durian’s Famous Stink
• We Finally Know How Durian Got So Stinky
• This Could Be How Durians Get Their Stinky Smell
• Why Does the Durian Stink? Scientists Unravel Smelly Fruit’s DNA
• What Does DNA Taste Like? An Investigation
Library Stories
• Library of Mistakes
• Library of Congress Book Conveyor Tunnel
• New Documentary on a Weird & Wonderful Dutch Library Now Free to Stream on Amazon Prime
• How the University of New Hampshire Spun Blowing a Frugal Librarian’s Donation on a Stupid Football Scoreboard
• Why I’m Finally Shelving My Father’s 1,000-Volume Librar…
Kimi No Hitomi
• Scientists Discover Protein in Human Tears Can Create Electricity
• Why Seaweed, Not Solar, May Be the Energy of Tomorrow
• There’s Enough Wind Energy over the Oceans to Power Human Civilization, Scientists Say
• Why Wind Farms Make More Power over Water Than Land
• Study Shows North Atlanti…
Human Nature 1
• An Examination of the Multitude of Senses Humans Have Besides the Basic Five Defined by Aristotle
• Beyond the Big Five, Humans Have Dozens of Senses
• We Have More Than Five Senses
• The Naked Ape at 50: ‘Its Central Claim Has Surely Stood the Test of Time’
• Do People Walk in Predictabl…
Dateline Japan 1
• Japanese Men Reveal the Halloween Costumes They Most Want to See on Women
• New Smartphone App Helps Lonely Women in Japan Make Female Friends, Forbids Date Requests
• Lists of What Gives Japanese Women a Good or Bad First Impression of Men Are Confusingly Similar
• Japanese Women Reveal the…
Aging, Aji, & Cafe Culture
• Japanese Portable Alarm to Keep Laptops Safe When Working from a Cafe Smashes Crowdfunding Goal
• Modern Laundromat-Cafe in Japan Helps Customers Pass the Time
• Clothes Washing and Ironing in Japan
• Japanese People List Their Top Ten Fish, and Tuna Isn’t Number On…
Canoe Figure It Out?
• What Is This Thing Someone Found in a Creek Bed?
• Mysterious Object Makes Waves on Rhode Island Beach
• Wooden Canoe Found in Florida Could Be Linked to the 1600s
• Florida Has More Archaeological Canoes Than Anywhere Else in the World
• A Centuries-Old Frieze, Newly Deciphered, Tells the Story of the End of the Bronze Ag…
Country Diary 1
• Country Diary: The House Martins Have Taken Their Song and Departed
• Country Diary 1917: Ducks Float Like Toy Birds in the Early Haze
• Country Diary: Dark Trees Guard Even Darker Mysteries
• Country Diary: Solitary Wasp’s Embrace Means the End of the Road
Living Language
• ‘Alt-Right,’ ‘Troll’ and ‘Dog Whistle’ Among New Entries Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• ‘Froyo,’ ‘Troll,’ and ‘Sriracha’ Added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Isn’t Trolling You, It’s Just Redefining What That Means
• Languages with a Synthetic Pluperfect Tense (Or… (Linguistic Map…
Bolshoe Spasibo, Colonel Petrov
• The “Man Who Saved the World” from Nuclear Annihilation Has Died
• Stanislav Petrov, Who Averted Nuclear War, Dies at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, the ‘Man Who Saved the World’ Dies at 77
• Soviet Officer Who Averte…
Dust Off Your Didgeridoo and Snore No More
• Maru and the Aquarium
• Are Cats Solid or Liquid? And Other Award-Winning Absurd Scientific Research of 2017
• 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
• Dining on Humans and Cat Fluidity Honored with Ig Nobels
• 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate Research on How Crocodiles Affect Gambling and Other Odd Studie…
Born Furry
• This Man Is Like the Jane Goodall of Bears
• Meet the Jane Goodall of Bears
• Jane, a Biographical Film about the Remarkable Jane Goodall Inspired by Lost Footage of Her Work
• Documentary Shows Jane Goodall in New Light with Unseen Footage
• Dr. Jane Goodall Is Now Teaching an Online Course On…
Smoke’s Gonna Come Out
• What Would the Next Golden Record Carry?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson Blames ‘Both Sides’ for the Rise of Anti-Intellectualism in Politics
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: What If We Just Turned the Hurricanes into Electricity
• Would Dumping Trash into Volcanoes Solve Our Global Waste Problem?
• Why Don’t We Throw Trash…
Bug Woes After Harvey
• Why They’re Rescuing Bats in Houston
• Harvey Is a 1,000-Year Flood Event Unprecedented in Scale
• Yes, That’s a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas
• J.J. Watt’s Flood Relief Fund Tops $8.5 Million after Boost from Walmart and Ellen DeGeneres
• How These Insects Bite 700 Times Faster Than You Can Blin…
Undersea Wonders
• A Look Inside the Newly Discovered City Built by Octopuses
• Scientists Just Discovered the First Brainless Animal That Sleeps
• These Jellyfish Don’t Have Brains, But Still Somehow Seem to Sleep
• Jellyfish Sleep, and Now Scientists Wonder If Plants and Bacteria Sleep To…
The Accidental Rainforest
• What the Bark Is That? – The Giving Tree Isn’t Home Right Now
• Clear-Cut Tropical Forest Revitalized with Industrial Orange Peel Waste
• This 12,000-Ton Pile of Orange Peels Is Now a Lush Costa Rican Forest
• How Discarded Orange Peels Brought a Costa Rica Forest Back to Life
• The Hidden Memories of Plant…
Physics and Physiology
• 10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Hand Models
• How to Trick Your Brain into Thinking a Small Animal Is Hopping up Your Arm
• 7 Surprising Facts about the Chin
• Boys Are Better at Physics Because They Learn about ‘Projection’ While Going to the Toilet, Researchers Say
• Girls’ School Shoes Are …
Skunks, Sloths, & Feline Physics
• Why Do Cats Love Scratching Furniture?
• How Can a Cat Survive a High-Rise Fall? Physics.
• Skunk Research Review
• Things You Probably Don’t Know about Sloths
• Fox Mistakes Bedsheets for Snow
• Wolves Are Probably Smarter Than Our Dogs
• Your Dog Is Probably Dumb…
Herd Recently
• Sheep Also Yawn (Contagiously)
• What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist about Language
• To Save the Planet, Scientists Figured out How to Fix Cow Farts
• Why Farmers Treat Cows Like People
• The Secret Logic of Cows
• The Secret Life of Cows
• Cowabunga! Strange Cow Stories
Isolation Stations
• What’s on US Astronaut’s Wish List after 9 Months in Space?
• Now Hiring: A Hairdresser for an Antarctic Research Station
• Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science
• After 8 Months of Isolation, Mars Research Team Emerges
• Hopeful Martians Emerge from 8-Month Experiment to Find Earth Horrific as Ever
• ‘Not One Insult’: Briton …
Very Special Delivery
• Parrot Goes Viral after Placing Amazon Order
• Woman Couldn’t Explain Mysterious Amazon Orders until Her Parrot Talked
• Madonna Can’t Convince FedEx She Is Really Madonna
• UPS Denies Delivering Package That Trapped Man in Home
• UPS Driver Accidentally Traps Customer in Flat with Terrible Parcel Placemen…
Cold Cases
• Can You Help Decipher This Note about Antarctic Explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton?
• Activist Urges Walrus Rafts in Absence of Arctic Sea Ice
• Why Didn’t Russia Sell Alaska to Canada?
• Mårket Island: The Bizarre Border Between Sweden and Finland
• How This Giant Sphere in Iceland is Keeping Track of…
Now That’s Clever
• People Share Their Kids’ Cleverest Inventions
• 5-Year-Old Puts Artwork Online at Ridiculous Prices But Still Sells Some!
• These 12-Year-Olds Have a Clever Solution to Stop Birds from Flying into Planes
• Dad Comes up with Ingenious Way to Keep Kids Quiet During Soccer on TV
• Dadbag, a Fanny Pack That…
38,690-Day-Old Fruitcake
• Shopping Cart Alignment Chart
• Bread Storage Alignment Chart
• The Bottom Plate
• Should You Eat a 106-Year-Old Fruitcake?
• 35-Year-Old Can Of Corn Donated To Food Bank, Which Naturally Decides To Open It
• The Hamburger on Display in a Canadian Legislature
• Seattle Mariners Fans Are Going Crazy for these Crunchy Grass…
Random Acts of Awe
• When Are You Really Random? After Age 24
• A Coin Toss Is Not as Random or Fair as It Seems
• When the Mind Wanders
• The Power of Being Bored
• Stop Being Boring When People Ask ‘So What Do You Do?’
• A Guide to Making More Time by Cultivating Everyday Awe
• Imagination Is Such an Ability It Might Precede Eve…
Prototype Tablet App
• Trigonometry Discovered on a 3700-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet
• This Mysterious Ancient Tablet Could Teach Us a Thing or Two about Math
• Archeologists Decipher Ancient Babylonian Trigonometry Tablet
• Mathematical Secrets of Ancient Tablet Unlocked after Nearly a Century of Study
• Ancient Babylonian Tablet Ma…
On the Road
• What Happens If You Turn off the Traffic Lights?
• The Geographical Challenges of Building a Continuous Drivable Road around the Earth
• Estimated Insect Deaths Due to Collisions with Motor Vehicles
• To Guard Against Climate Change, Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets White
• Drinking and Drive-Overs
• Is It Better to Back in…
Playa Ukulele, Anyone?
• Emergency Playa Ukuleles
• Bonkers Human Centipede Race Against a Bull Looks Ridiculously High Risk
• Hide-And-Seek World Championship
• Hobby Horsing Around
• Want a Fun Party Game? Now ‘That’s a Question!’
• 27 Adorably Strange Birthday Party Themes Kids Have Chosen
• The Lost Origins of …
Book Drops
• Twitter Helped Get Literature up to Date with #MakeClassicNovelsModern
• The Horse-Riding Librarians of the Great Depression
• Blood, Bookworms, Bosoms and Bottoms: The Secret Life of Libraries
• Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Novels Destroyed by Steamroller
• Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Works Were Just Crushe…
Book & Film Lists 1
• The Top 100 American Films of All Time, According to 62 International Film Critics
• The 100 Funniest Films of All Time, According to 253 Film Critics from 52 Countries
• Our Favorite Books of All Time
• 100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 82 — the Diary of Fanny Burney (1778)
• The Stories Behind the Greatest Movie Props of all…
Back to School Special
• The First Day of School
• What the First Day of School Looks Like around the World
• Why Adults Still Experience Back-To-School Anxiety
• 11 Cool, Funny or Just Plain Strange Patents for Back to School
• Why Is This so Hard for People to Figure Out? The Daily Hell That Is School Drop-Off and Pickup
• A Brief History of Schoo…
Around the House 1
• Why Mattresses Come with Warning Tags
• The Rise of the Recliner as a Male Social Space
• Plywood Manufacturing History Surprisingly Interesting
• Why Aren’t There Universal Sockets in Every Country?
• How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
• How to Fix a Toilet and Other things We Can’t Do Withou…
Home Cooking
• The True Identity of Cup Noodle’s “Mystery Meat”
• New Japanese Cat Cafe Is so Stylish It’d Be Worth a Visit Even If It Was Feline-Free
• Japan’s Top Twenty Roadside Service Stops, Destinations in Their Own Right
• What Is Panko, and How Is It Different from Bread Crumbs?
• Vending Machine That Serves Homemade Gyoza Found in…
Around Japan 2
• Video: Why Homelessness in Japan Is Different Than in North America
• Homeless in Japan, Part 2: Who They Are
• Japan Is No Place for Single Mothers
• Japanese Survey Picks “Slightly Plump” as the Cutest Body Type for Women
• No, Japan Doesn’t Have a Special Phrase for Mansplainin…
Test of Character 1
• Which Reptile Are You? [quiz]
• The Best Way to Manage Stress for Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type
• How Well Do You Know Yourself? Personality Quiz
• Here’s How to Find out Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type‚ and What It Means
• 16 Tweets That Will Speak to Your Soul If You’re an Introvert
• Chinese Kids Born in the …
War Stories
• ‘I May Have to Disobey My Government’: Lessons from ‘Japan’s Schindler’
• During WW II Two Americans Escaped the Japanese by Sailing 3,000 Miles in a Wooden Fishing Boat
• The Location of Internment Camps Had Profound, Long-Lasting Effects on Japanese-Americans Assigned to Them
• Macarthur’s Japan — This Br…
Poo Corner
• How Poop Makes the World Go ‘Round
• Scientists Explain Why Coffee Makes You Poop
• The Secret Life of Burning Man’s 1,700 Porta Potties
• First Date Involves Human Poo and Firefighters
• Woman on Tinder Date Gets Stuck in Window Trying to Retrieve Her Own Poop
• Woman Rescued by Fire Bri…
Howlin’ Wolves, Muddy Waters, and Squirrel Talk
• A Hurricane by Any Other Name
• The 2017 Hurricane Season Is on Track to Break the Record for the Most Named Storms
• Who Decides Hurricane Names?
• What Hurricanes Can Dredge Up: Coffins, Canoes and Creatures
• Canoe Found after Hurricane Irma Eyed as Piece of Florida Histor…
Science Show 1
• Watch Sand Magically Flow Like a Liquid When Pumped Full of Air
• Watch a Super Cooled Nickel Ball Freeze a Bowl of Mercury
• Pouring Molten Salt into Melons
• Fascinating Experiments That Show What Happens When Mercury and Aluminum Are Combined
• See the Magical Way Balloons Are Made
• Argument Finally Settled Ove…
Customs & Emigration
• Decidedly American Behaviors That Are Considered to Be Rude in Other Countries
• 4 Ways Foreign Tourists Disrespect the Cultures They’re Visiting
• Garçon! Some Outdated, Embarrassing Phrases, Por Favor
• Gestures You Shouldn’t Use in Other Countries
• 11 Things That Tourists Should Never Do in Morocco, Eve…
Artificial Ingredients
• The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to Drive Success
• Orchestra Conductors Watch Out – Here’s a Robot Who Can Do the Job
• Robot Conductor Leads Beautiful Live Orchestra Performance
• Japanese Robot Dog Sniffs Your Feet and Faints If They’re Smell…
Cats, Cukes, & Penguin Poo
• Why Are Cats Afraid of Cucumbers?
• Cats on a Train! Japan Railway Lets Felines Roam to Raise Awareness of Strays
• Cat Crosses City Street Like a Boss
• The Scientific Reason You Love Taking Your Dog on Walks
• Animals Did Things for the First Time, and Had the Funniest…
Birds, Bees, & RentaCarp
• Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces
• New Research Helps Confirm Why Horses Have Single-Toed Hooves
• How Do Albatrosses Fly around the World? (Studies)
• The Bees Behind Your Morning Coffee Might Be in Big Trouble
• Lonely Guests at This Belgian Hotel Can Rent a Goldfish…
2296 Toes, 486 Lives
• What Actually Happens When You Shoot a Bullet into a Hurricane
• Behind-the-Scenes Pics Show How Disney World Prepared for Hurricane Irma
• Hemingway’s 54 Six-Toed Cats Survive Hurricane Irma Inside the Museum
• Hemingway Museum and Six-Toed Cats Ride out Irma Unscathed…
Frozen, Foamy, Floating World
• Checking How Much Air Is in Ice Cream with a Vacuum Chamber
• Videos Capture the Wonder of Self-Expanding Foam Packaging
• Pouring Water on My Hot Crucible
• Bowling Balls 12 Lbs or Less Float in Water
• What’s Causing These Egg-Shaped Rocks to Form on a Cliff in China?
Drs. Doolittle Do a Lot
• “Birdman of Gujarat” Has Been Feeding around 3,000 Birds Every Day, for 17 Years
• Chinese “Guardian of Dogs” Has Rescued over 700 Strays in the Last 8 Years
• When Disaster Strikes, the Zoo Must Go On
• The Lesser-Known Side Effects of Natural Disasters
• What Happens to Wild Animals in a Hurricane…
I Say Ouch!
• Tripp and Tyler Engage in a Hilarious Conversation Full of the Typical Faux Pas That Many People Make
• Funny Examples of Awful Language Usage
• What Do You Call a Small Piece of Wood Under the Skin?
• ‘A Language We Use to Say Sentimental Things’: How Shoegaze Took over Asia
• Found: The Oldest Example…
Around Town 1
• Driverless Shuttles Could Help Seniors Get around in Rural Japan
• Where Does ‘Taking Back Control’ Leave Our Shopping Streets? In Cloud Cuckoo Land
• One Italian City’s Ingenious Plan to Combat Xenophobia with Design
• Vending Machine Startup Hopes to Put Bodegas out of Business
Around Japan 1
• Tokyo Is Now Home to a Karaoke-Themed Ferris Wheel
• Japanese Woman Punches Boyfriend, Charms Internet Following His Terrible Restaurant Manners
• Tour of a Japanese Convenience Store
• Japanese Companies Poke Fun at Their Own Products in Hilariously Self-Deprecating Advertisement…
Book Business
• The Strawberry and Raspberry Hybrid Theory: Country Diary 100 Years Ago
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 85, Common Sense by Tom Paine (1776)
• How the Rise of Paperback Books Turned to Kill a Mockingbird into a Literary Classic
• How to Rescue a Wet Book
• How to Rescue a Wet, Dama…
Who’s Happiest?
• The Happiest States in America
• And the Happiest State in America Is …
• This Is the State You Need to Move to If You Wanna Be Happy, Research Says
• Why Denmark Is the World’s Happiest Country
• A Lykke Life: The Six Pillars of Happiness That Are Found Across the Globe
• The Little Book of Lykke: The …
Hardly Working
• About 40% of ‘Worker’ Ants Just Hang Around, Doing Nothing
• 40% of Worker Ants Are Actually Lazy Slackers, But They Have Their Reasons
• “Work Is Very Important” – Percentage Who Agree
• These Are the Highest Paying Jobs in America Right Now
• By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
Yaks, Yawns, and the Sandman
• The New Study Suggesting Sitting Will Kill You Is Kind of a Raging Dumpster Fire
• Letting Eyewitnesses Sleep Could Make for More Accurate Testimony
• The Scientific Reason Why Sleep Deprivation Might Make You Happier
• Should You Let Your Dog Sleep in Bed with You?
• Sleeping with Your Dog Ca…
Hidden Treasures 1
• Boston University Students Discover 1915 Time Capsule Hidden in Storage
• English School Caretaker Discovers Medieval Coin Hoard Buried in Playground
• New Zealander Finds Photos in Antique Japanese Sewing Box, Requests Internet’s Help Tracing Them
• Garage Sale Jewelry Turns out to Be Worth $30,000
Slime Doesn’t Pay
• Laser Beams Unveil Secrets Locked Inside Primitive Stone Spear Points
• New Study Reveals How the Neanderthals Made Super Glue 200,000 Years Ago: The World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Material
• Recreating the Glue Neanderthals Used to Make Weapons
• New Super-Glue Inspired by Slug Slim…
The Kids Are All Writing
• How Families and Feelings Built Human Culture
• Why Are Children so Annoying? You Asked Google – Here’s the Answer
• 31 Bizarre, Insightful and LOL-Worthy Quotes from Kids
• Photos That Show What Motherhood Looks Like around the World
• New Parenting Trend: Texting Kids from Inside the House
Something in the Air
• A Cannery That Makes the Odiferous Swedish Delicacy Surströmming (Fermented Herring)
• Inside the World’s Smelliest Factory
• Step Inside the World’s Worst-Smelling Factory at Your Own Risk
• Air Pollution in Asia – Interactive Map
• Map Showing How Many Year…