• 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…
What to Do About Misconduct
• What Happens after Men Apologize for Bad Behavior?
• Reconciling Love and Admiration for Men Who Behave Badly
• How to Be a Good Guy in the Office without Avoiding Women Altogether
• How to Flirt Safely (by a Guy Who Is Definitely Not about to Be Fired for Harassment)…
A Social Function
• 35 Thoughtful Questions to Ask at Thanksgiving Dinner
• 12 Pieces of 100-Year-Old Advice for Dealing with Your In-Laws
• This Thanksgiving Pass the Stuffing — And Don’t Pass on the Discussion of Social Issues
• Solving the Riddle of What to Drink on Thanksgiving
• New York Today: What Are You Thankful For…
Safety Zones
• These Are the Safest Countries in the World to Visit
• Three Graphics That Show Why Finland Is the Safest Place on the Planet
• This Unexpected Country Is Apparently the World’s Safest Place to Travel
• Land Mines in Ukraine’s East Put It Among World’s Most Dangerous Areas for Civilians
• People in These Places Le…
Learning from Nature
• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
• Wake Up and Smell the Traffic? London Tries Coffee to Power Buses
• Holy Smokes! Tobacco May Fuel Planes in the Future
• Full of Beans: Coffee Grounds to Help Power London’s Buses
• This Commuter Bus Runs on Poo…
Body Oddities
• Women Less Likely to Receive CPR in Public, Study Finds
• Hemorrhoid Cream Has Weird Benefits for Under-Eye Area
• The Age Your Brain Matures at Everything — and It Isn’t Even Fully Developed until Age 25
• How the Human Brain Tracks a 100-Mph Fastball
• Leggo My Eggo! – Apparently Frozen Waffles Are Brain Food, Who Knew?…
Around Japan 7
• Watch Black in Tokyo, a Short Documentary about Living in Japan as a Black Person
• Takayama-Laos Connection (Google Translate)
• Miss Laos 2011 Louknum Posts ‘Japan’ Via Social Media
• Yaoi Fans Rejoice as Shinto Shrine Seemingly Opens Part-Time Positions for Male Shrine Maidens
• Only 36% of Toilets in Pu…
Surrounded by Sound
• Since 2010, Sad Songs Have Become Less Common All over the World
• Sorry, Christmas Music Might Be Bad for Your Health
• Scientists Analyze the Moods of 90,000 Songs Based on Music and Lyrics
• The Simple Statistical Analysis That Explains the Entire History of Popular Music
• This Bird’s Songs Share…
That Cat Could Hold His Whisky, It Could Hold Him
• Ernest Hemingway Taught One of His Many, Many Cats to Drink Whisky
• The Physics of Whisky’s Aesthetically Pleasing Residue
• The Question That Won Me the Ig Nobel Prize: Are Cats Liquid?
• Scientists Finally Answer the Important Question, Are Cats a Liquid?
• Is a Cat a Liquid…
Language Policing
• China Would Really Like You to Stop Saying “Tofu”
• Eight Ways English Is Creeping Its Way into Chinese, as Explained by a Chinese YouTuber
• “Good on the Floor?” Five Funny Times Google Translate Drops the Ball with Japanese Idioms
• Quebec Tries to Say Au Revoir to ‘Hi,’ and Hello to ‘Bonjour’
• French the New Lingua Franca of the World — Vraiment?…
The City Struggle
• These Cities and Countries Will Pay You to Move There
• 25 Record-Breaking Cities: Highest, Cheapest, Oldest and Most Crowded
• What the Happiest Countries on Earth Can Teach Americans
• Why Is Leamington Spa the Happiest Place in Britain?
• Swiss Mountain Village, Population 13, Opens Hotel to Avoid Extinctio…
Conversation School
• The Secret Life of ‘Um’
• Why Small Talk Is Actually Really Good for You
• The Police Have Discovered Social Media Banter — the Result Is No Joke
• The Languages That Take the Most (and Least) Time to Learn, per the US Foreign Service
• A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: Fro…
Words of the Year 2017
• ‘Complicit’ Is the Word of the Year, According to Dictionary.com
• Dictionary.com Chooses ‘Complicit’ as Its Word of the Year
• Word of the Year 2017: Dictionary.com Says ‘Complicit’ Topped ‘Totality’
• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2017: ‘Feminism’
• Nobody in the UK Has Ever…
Perspectives on Perception
• People Are Less Dismissive of Ideas They Hear Than Those They Read, Study Finds
• Why Reading Aloud Helps You Remember More Information
• You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See
• Burgeoning British Appreciation of Pseudo-Profound Baloney
• Scientists Identify Precisely What Makes a Poem Pleasing
Nothing Here, Move Along
• We’d Rather That Bridges Never Wobbled — But Here’s Why They Do
• The Bridge Wobbles. So Do You. That’s When the Trouble Starts
• 5 Facts about Roundabouts
• Shaftesbury Avenue – the UK’s Worst Illegal Parking Blackspot
• The Design Philosophy Behind Uncomfortable Subway Benches, Explained
• The Father of the Most Hostil…
Christmas Turkeys
• Which Is the Greatest City for Christmas: London or Paris?
• Mall Declares War on Infuriating Christmas-Time Slow Walkers
• What’s the Difference Between a Gift and a Present?
• Wearing an Ugly Holiday Sweater Will Score You This Amazing Airline Perk
• Want Priority Boarding On Your Alaska Airlines Flight This Holiday Season? Wear…
Advice Columns 1
• Ask Amy: Good Guy Is Punished for Good Deed
• We Were Going to Eat That
• Carolyn Hax: Snooping in Husband’s Texts Just Confirms What You Already Know
• Carolyn Hax: What to Do When You Realize That You Sound Like a Braggart
• Carolyn Hax: A Mother Might Need to Discipline Herself to Pick Her Battle…
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
Collecting Interest
• Winston Churchill’s 12-Word Definition of Success May Just Change Your Life
• Read Albert Einstein’s Handwritten Advice from 1922 on Living a Happy Life
• Einstein Scribbled His Theory of Happiness in Place of a Tip. It Just Sold for More Than $1 Million
• Make Tough Decisions Easier with a Decision Matri…
That Time of the Year
• The Year in #MeToo: Read the Post’s Stories about the Movement
• In 90 Years Women Have Made Person of the Year Covers Eight Times
• The Choice
• Person of the Year 2017:TheSilenceBreakers
• ‘MeToo’ Movement Named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year…
A Fight for Love and Glory
• When a Student Asked How Someone Knows They’re in Love, This Professor Had an Adorable Answer
• American Weddings Vs. European Weddings
• One in Ten Grooms Now Take Their Wife’s Surname, Study Finds
• The Occupations with the Highest and Lowest Divorce Rates in the U…
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…
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…
Merkel Tops Power List
• How Long and How Often Do Japanese Women Bathe? Survey Investigates
• Japanese Women List Reasons They Wish Their Husbands Would Die in New Husband Death Note Book
• The Top 10 Traits of “Domestic” Women in Japan, According to Japanese Men
• 5 Powerful Reasons to Be a Woman in Japa…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Around Japan 3
• Which Japanese Anime Character Should Be Prime Minister of Japan?
• Stuff That Happens in Morning Rush Hour Trains in Japan
• Post-War Common Sense That Is Inconceivable Now
• Foreigners Misreading Japanese Kanji of “Two Men One Woman” Is Too Pure for Japanese Internet
• Letter from First-Grade …
Butterball, Bath, & Beyond
• Japan’s “Leftover Bathwater Drink” Wants You to Imagine Beautiful Nude Women as You Sip It
• KFC Cooks Up Fried Chicken Bath Salts in Japan
• You Can Now Smell Like Fried Chicken Thanks to This KFC Drumstick Bath Bomb
• This Ice Cream Is Flavored Like Thanksgiving Dinner Foods
• Thanksgiving-Inspired Ice…
Map Lust 1
• Map of Aussie Slang
• European Languages by Use of Grammatical Genders and Gendered…
• The Western World According to American Political Scientist…
• Countries with a Positive Net Migration Rate
• Countries’ Yearly Population Change
• Percent of the World’s Population Within 10,000 K…
Tongues, Toes, & Videos
• Scientist Finally Figures Out Why Holes Feel Larger with Your Tongue Than with Your Finger
• Surprise, Your Pinky Toe Does Serve a Purpose
• How Long Can a Person Safely Hang Upside Down?
• How Long to Nap for the Biggest Benefits
• Does Self-Control Deplete over the Course of the Day? Maybe Not, Says New Stud…
Autocomplete Search Trends 1
• Sometimes Accidental Google Searches Bring the Best Results
• Google Auto Fill “Why Is Province/Territory So ~?”
• Google Autocomplete with ‘Why Is (State) So ~?’
• What Is Diversity? You Asked Google — Here’s the Answer
• Am I Old? You Asked Google — Here’s the Answer
• Why Is Life So Hard? You As…
Dumber & Dumbest
• Some of the Strangest and Funniest ‘I Woke Up to This’ Moments
• The 25 Dumbest Ways You Managed to Injure Yourself
• The 25 Dumbest Ways You Managed to Injure Yourself
• 911 Dispatchers Share the Dumbest Calls They’ve Ever Received
• People on Twitter Are Sharing the Dumbest Things They’ve E…
Do You Swear?
• The Size of Things: An Ngram Experiment
• Swearing Is Good for You by Emma Byrne; How to Swear by Stephen Wildish — Review
• Daily Telegraph to Readers: Are You Able to Specifically Describe ‘Crap’?
• Language Patterns Reveal Body’s Hidden Response to Stress
• The Randomness of Languag…
Learning Curve Ball
• The Era of Easily Faked, AI-Generated Photos Is Quickly Emerging
• There’s a Glaring Mistake in the Way AI Looks at the World
• Google’s AI Thinks This Turtle Is a Rifle
• Hey, So, Your IPhone May Have Tagged All the Photos of You in a ‘Brassiere’
• Your IPhone’s AI Is Tracking All Your Pictures That It…
Defending the Fauna
• Philippines Trying to Decide Whether to Burn, Crush or Donate $10 Million Worth of Ivory
• Can Farming Rhinos for Their Horns Save the Species?
• Three Elephants in Connecticut Just Got a Lawyer
• Elephants Deserve Legal ‘Personhood,’ New Lawsuit Argues in Connecticut
• Connecticut Lawsuit Is the First to Claim Elephants…
Poignant Memoir Moves from Afar
• Why a 19th Century American Slave Memoir Is Becoming a Bestseller in Japan’s Bookstores
• A 19th-Century American Slave Memoir Is a Huge Hit in Japan
• ‘This Is Surreal’: Descendants of Slaves and Slaveowners Meet on US Plantation
• Networking Group Invites White People to ‘Come Meet a Black Person’
Tech’s Effects 1
• How a Half-Educated Tech Elite Delivered Us into Evil
• How Algorithms Are Pushing the Tech Giants into the Danger Zone
• How Technology’s Built-In ‘Engagement Maximization’ Destroys Mental Health in the Trump Age, and What to Do
• Algorithm May Decide Who Is a ‘Contributing Member of Society,’ Civi…
Accounting for Taste
• Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People?
• Why Asparagus Makes Your Urine Smell
• What Makes Rain Smell So Good?
• Why You Like What You Like
• The Great Ginkgo Leaf Dump Is Here
• Think You Know How Ripe You Like Bananas? Think Again
• Bananapocalypse: Genetic …
Tech’s Effects 2
• The Tiny, Passionate Group Battling Google, Facebook, and Amazon’s Grip on US Minds and Wallets
• ‘Siri, What’s the Meaning of Life?’ How My Phone Became My Closest Confidante
• There’s a New Religion Centered around Artificial Intelligence and It Sounds Terrifying
• Protect Net Neutrality and Internet freedom: World W…
Don’t Have to Baby Me
• Babies Might Understand Language Better Than Anyone Thought
• Babies Learn What Words Mean Before They Can Use Them
• 6-Month-Old Infants May Understand Related Words
• Hide and Seek Might Be Good for Kids’ Brains
• School Bans Teachers from Marking in Attempt to Boost Children’s Confidenc…
Trading Places
• Lost Containers and Rubber Ducks Overboard: Inside the Curious World of Container Shipping
• How the Shipping Industry Is the Secret Force Driving the World Economy
• Map of Every Country’s Biggest Export
• Map of Major Suppliers of Critical Raw Materials
• Interactive: The 50 Large…
All Just Get Along
• A 7 Year Old Boy and a 64 Year Old Man Sit down Across from Each Other to Discuss Their Lives
• What Kept Henry Fonda and James Stewart Friends for 50 Years?
• The Curious Animosity of Fred and Ethel Mertz
• The Mysterious Phenomenon of Stupid Things Becoming Much Smarter When Working Together
• To Recover from an Argumen…
Scrawls of the Scribes
• Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces
• Medieval City Plan Generator
• Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
• Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video
• Strange and Curious Wills of the Georgian Era in the Canterbury Court
Inward Bound
• Illustrator Perfectly Captures How an Introvert Likes to Spend the Weekend
• Humorous Cartoons That Illustrate the Perplexing Social Life of an Introvert
• 16 Tweets about Being an Introvert That Will Make You LOL
• Dinner for One: The Truth about Why We’re All Eating out Alone
• Eating Alone Is Slowly Killing Yo…
Refugee Rescuers
• Man Who Spent Retirement Repairing Norfolk Milestones Hidden from Nazis Wins Prize
• A Cycling Legend’s Secret War Mission: Saving Italy’s Jews
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Schindler’s List
• His Brother’s Keeper: ‘Chinese Schindler’ Defied His Government to Rescue More Than 3,000 Austrian Jews
• Latin America’s Schindl…
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…
Lava’s Gonna Ooze
• A Wall of Lava Lamps That Generate Enough Randomness to Help Keep the Internet Secure
• One of the Secrets Guarding the Secure Internet Is a Wall of Lava Lamps
• How These Lava Lamps Are Securing the Internet
• The Lava Lamps That Help Keep the Internet Secure
National Colors
• The Reason You Almost Never See Purple on National Flags
• Tourism Logos of US States
• Tourism Logos of Canadian Provinces
• Tourism Logos for Italian Regions
• The World’s Most Powerful Passport Is No Longer European
• Places Where English Is an Official Language
• Main Native Language-Fami…
Test of Character 3
• How Cool Are You? Personality Quiz
• Are You Self-Compassionate? Personality Quiz
• This Is the Least Common Myers-Briggs Personality Type
• 5 Signs You’re the Oldest Child in Your Family
• You Are Only Ever as Happy as Your Unhappiest Child
• There’s No Guidebook to Help the Unfaithful
Science Miscellany
• The Science of Bodily Functions: Why We Yawn, Sneeze, Burp, and More
• Head-Shaking Research — Ejecting Water from the Ear Canals
• Struck by Cow, Contact with Dagger: The Oddest Medical Codes You’ll See
• Sing Happy Birthday Twice While Washing Your Hands, Say Pharmacist…
Banter & Boulder
• Why ‘Bushman Banter’ Was Crucial to Hunter-Gatherers’ Evolutionary Success
• Why It’s Human Nature to Ignore Our Instincts
• Jimmy Chin on the Deeper Meaning of Climbing
• Japanese Gardens: The Enigmatic Art of Raked Gravel and Rocks Does Not Give up Its Secrets Lightly
• Don’t Convert Africa…
Physics & Physique
• 18 of the Greatest Photographs from 125 Years of National Geographic
• Inspiration for the Beatles’ Lady Madonna? National Geographic
• Finally, a Downside to Being Attractive
• Attractive Woman Says Being So Beautiful Is a Real Curse
• People Guess Which Strangers Are Virgins in Myth-Challenging Vide…
Missed Signs
• Government Snubs Campaign to Change ‘Misleading’ Soccer Road Signs
• Update the UK Traffic Signs Regulations to a Geometrically Correct Soccer Ball
• 5 Reasons Why Amsterdam Works So Well for Bikes
• ‘Beer Bikes’: Amsterdam Calls Time on Drunken, Urinating Processions
• Amsterdammers vs Tourists…
Saves on Spills, at Least
• Nude Diners, Do Spare a Thought for Your Waiters
• Things You Should Never Say to Your Server
• Is That It? The Tourist Attractions That Are Far Smaller (and More Disappointing) Than You Think
• Why You Should Never Order the Daily Special in a Restaurant
• A Ingenious Nut Gathering Device That Can Easily Clean up…
Language Lessons 1
• Toilet Signs Are Mysterious and Mirth-Inducing
• Finally, Evidence of Just How Much Scientists Love Using Adverbs
• 25 ‘Engrish’ Items That Got Hilariously Lost in Translation
• How to Tell Whether You Have Angst, Ennui or Weltschmerz
• Languages for Which There…
Washer & Fridge Tips
• How Often You Should Wash Everything in Your Home, According to Science
• How Often You Should Wash Your Bed Sheets, According to a Microbiologist
• How Often Should You Wash Your Bedsheets?
• Hang These Charts on Your Refrigerator and Never Waste Food Again
• Room Temp or Refrigerate?…
Who’s Bigger?
• These Are All the Places That Europeans Actually Discovered
• Australia Compared to the Continental United States
• The Size of Japan Compared with New Zealand
• Japan, How Big It Is in Reality?
• The Size of the Middle East Compared to the United States
• How Big Greenland Actually Is
Future Food Fads
• In 2018, Kombucha Is Getting Big — And Craftier
• Silicon Valley Teens Are Trendsetting the Next Instagram-Famous Beverage
• Behold, the Latest Wait-In-Line, Instagram-Your-Purchase Status Food: Cheese Tea
• 2018 Food Trends: Here’s What Everyone Will Be Eating (and Instagramming)
• Quiz: Which Healthy Hot Win…
Most This and That
• What Was the Most Influential Photograph in History?
• What Was the Most Significant Event to Happen on a Holiday?
• What Was the Most Peaceful Time in History?
• What Was the Most Influential Power Couple in History?
Born to Roam
• The Story of Human Migration Out of Africa Just Got Rewritten
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Speech Exquisitely Describes the Immigrant Longing for an Imagined Home
• The Global Dominance of White People Is Thanks to the Potato
• Could You Pass the Exam Meghan Markle Will Take to Become a British Citizen?
• ‘Know What Jandals Are?’…
Born Identity
• Things I’ll Do Differently When I’m Old
• 27 Food Names Parents Are Giving Their Babies
• 27 Animal Names Parents Are Giving Their Babies
• Why Do We Have Middle Names?
• Parents of Summer Born Children Will Be Allowed to Start School Aged Five, Minister Says
• Don’t Call Us Snowflakes — I…
The Look of Life
• Is Anybody Out There? What Darwin Can Teach Us about What Aliens Look Like
• Oxford Biologists Just Outlined What Alien Life Looks Like
• Aliens Might Look and Think Like Us, Courtesy of Natural Selection
• Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future
• Help Name the Most Distant O…
Stand on Surface of Mercury, Swim in Sand
• When Cream Hits Coffee, the Math Is Magical
• The Shockwaves on a Rain-Soaked Window Screen Are Wonderfully Unique
• Making Liquid Out of Sand and Air
• What Kind of Sorcery Lets People Swim in This Sand-Filled Hot Tub?
• Watch This Soothing Video…
Dog or Cat Person?
• Do Animals Have Personalities? Why Scientists Are Starting to Admit They Do
• Did a Viral Study ‘Prove’ Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats? Not Quite
• Which Are Smarter, Cats or Dogs? New Study Gives Us the Answer
• Which Animals Are Smartest: Dogs, Cats, or… Raccoons?
• Meet Max, the Cat Who Los…
Not Forgotten
• Native Words, Native Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
• Hedy Lamarr’s Forgotten, Frustrated Career as a Wartime Inventor
• The Forgotten Doughnut Heroines of Wartime
• The Forgotten Story of the ‘Idle Women’ – Who Fought the Second World War on Britain’s Canals
• The Secret World War II…
Easy Come, Easy Go
• Missouri Woman Wins Lottery Twice in One Day
• Man Who Threw Away a Fortune in Bitcoin Now Looking to Dig Up a Landfill
• Porsche Stolen 27 Years Ago Discovered in Oregon Wilderness
• Man Is Reunited with His Car 20 Years after Forgetting Where He Parked It
• Homeless Man Who Stood in Rain to Guard Stranger’s £400…
Increasing Breadth of Allegations
• The Industries with the Worst Sexual Harassment Problem
• New York City Ballet Investigates Sexual Harassment Claim Against Peter Martins
• The Sexual Abuse and Harassment Scandals Blowing up on Broadway
• Six in 10 Classical Music Workers Harassed, UK Survey Finds…
Working in Japan
• Stubbornly Resistant to Change, Japan Is Finally Giving in for the Sake of Tourism
• Drone Curbs Overtime in Japan by Blasting Workers with Music
• Japanese Employees Work So Much That Drones Will Soon Intervene
• Japanese Company Prohibits Employees from Smoking on Their Commute to the Office
• I Tried to Take My Child…
Map Lust 3
• U.S. Corn Production by Percent
• Global Farming Land, USGS Survey
• Official Language Status in the US by State
• Cropland Map of the Continental US, 2012
• Land Value in Manhattan, 2006
• Fragile State Index, 2015
• This Map, with a Dot for Every American, Shows the Country’s Racial Divisio…
Universal Language
• Gorillas Like to Hum While They Eat
• With Voices Joined in Chorus, Giant Otter Families Create a Distinct Sound Signature
• Microorganisms on Your Scalp, Ears and Elbows Can Be Turned into Music
• Enjoy the Heavenly Sounds of the Glass Armonica, Invented by Benjamin Franklin
• William Zeitler Demonstra…
Free Speech Issues
• How Do You Use an Anonymous Source? The Mysteries of Journalism Everyone Should Know
• Should You Help Your Child with Their Homework?
• The Contradictions of Good Teaching
• The Two Clashing Meanings of ‘Free Speech’
• The Supreme Court Wedding Cake Case Shows It’s Time to…
Crimes Against Inanity
• India’s Punishment for Plant-Eating Donkeys: Jail Time
• The Doctor Who Signed Patients’ Livers Was Silly, Not Criminal. The Law Is Asinine
• Cafe Owner Banned from Peering Through Rival’s Window
• Australian Government Upholds Dismissal of Sneaky Golfer Who Shielded His Employer-Issued Tracking Device in a Chip Bag
• Man Is Fired after Using …
Plane Talk
• Here’s the Right Way to Deal with Armrests on a Plane
• The Best Way to Climb Over a Sleeping Plane Neighbor, If You Dare
• Most Air Travelers Say Taking off Your Shoes Is Okay. An Etiquette Expert Disagrees
• Why Is It So Difficult to Sleep While Sitting Up?
• 12 Hidden Aircraft Features You Probably Didn’t Know Abou…
Imaginnovation
• Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
• America’s Lost Einsteins
• Groundbreaking Empirical Research Shows Where Innovation Really Comes From
• Here’s How Imagination Works
• 6 Proven Benefits of Being More Imaginative
• 4 Proven Ways to Stimulate Your Imagination Throughout the Da…
Test of Character 4
• What Your Messy Desk Says about You (It’s a Good Thing)
• Dork or Duder: Which Kids Do Best in Later Life? Personality Quiz
• Are You a ‘Testosterone’ or a ‘Dopamine?’
• How to Tell If You’re an INFJ, the Rarest Personality Type in the World
• Do You Choose Emotions over Logic? Personality…
Zip, Clip, Crimp, & Crumple
• How Sexy Can a Paper Clip Get? (Study)
• Medical Uses for Paper Clips
• Why Does a Crumpled Paper Balloon Inflate When Batted Around?
• How to Make Any Shape Zippable (Research Study)
• Just Denting an Aluminum Can Makes People Less Likely to Recycle It
Work Study
• We Should All Be Working a Four-Day Week. Here’s Why
• America’s Most Gender-Differentiated Jobs
• These Easy to Read Pie Charts Reveal the Differences Between Men and Women
• Should I Use a Personal Day to Go on a Job Interview?
• Wage Theft ‘Endemic’ Among Exploited Backpackers in Australi…
Unusual Museums
• Clue, Wiffle Ball, Paper Airplane Enter Toy Hall of Fame
• Is It Time We Built a Museum of the History of American History?
• A South London Park of Inaccurate Dinosaur Sculptures That Must Legally Stay Inaccurate
• Inside Connecticut’s Secret Museum of Retro-Future Oddities
Grand Canyon, Uluru Safe for Now
• Beyond Genghis Khan: How Looting Threatens to Erase Mongolia’s History
• Amazon Tribe Clings to Traditional Way of Life
• Animal Rights Activists and Inuit Clash over Canada’s Indigenous Food Traditions
• Tribe Rejects Plan to Build Tram, Hotel in Grand Canyon
• Uluru Climb Banned fro…
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…
Food Findings
• The History of Five Uniquely American Sandwiches
• How ‘Citizen Housewives’ Made Food Cheaper and Safer
• The History and Rebirth of the American Automat
• This Automated Restaurant Was Supposed to Be the Future of Dining. Until Humanity Struck Back
• The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Frui…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cheese Tea & Garlic Coffee
• ‘Happy Chemical’ Discovered in Beer?
• Bubbly Ballistics: How Temperature Affects Champagne’s Signature Pop
• Colombians Have for Years Grown Amazing Coffee. Finally, They’re Drinking It
• I Put Peanuts in Coke to See What the Fuss Is About
• How Do You Use a Jar of Peanut Butter…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
Crows, Crabs, & Guano Grabs
• Crows Are Doing the Best They Can
• Can City Crows Be Trained to Habitually Clean Up Discarded Cigarette Butts?
• Hiring Crows as Street Cleaners
• Very Hungry Snails Are Guarding Coastal Ecosystems Against Climate Change
• Clam Makes Delightful Shlooping Sounds as It Dig…
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…
What About Hideki Matsui?
• Racer Snakes, Slug Sex, and Bat Dung Mountains: David Attenborough’s Greatest Moments
• T. Rex Arms, Wiggly Beluga Heads, and Tentacle-Nosed Moles: Smart Evolution Sometimes Looks Stupid
• T. Rex’s Tiny Arms May Have Been Vicious Weapons
• Why T. Rex’s Puny A…
Animal Inspiration
• NASA Turns to Lobsters to Help Locate the Sources of Gravitational Waves
• The Secrets of Gecko Tails Could Help Heal Human Spine Injuries
• Slime from This 300 Million-Year-Old Creature Could Create Bulletproof Body Armor
• Meet the Monster Whose Bite Is Saving Lives
• Jellyfish-Inspired E-Skin Glow…
The Plots Thicken
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants for Better Beef
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants to Improve Quality of Their Beef
• Scottish Farmer Reveals Why He Soils His Pants on Purpose
• Canadian Man Wakes up to Find Random House Abandoned in His Field
• #FindSue Mystery Solved as Farmer Reveals How Pol…
Kids in Charge & Sheep View
• Why Do We Call People Blamed for Things ‘Scapegoats’?
• 15 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Goats
• The Greek Beach Where Goats Are in Charge
• Is It … Baa-Rack Obama? Sheep Able to Recognise Celebrities, Say Neuroscientists
• Stunned Farmer Finds Flock o…
Forgotten Fall Folklore
• The Forgotten Romantic Rituals of Halloweens Past
• Find Love with These 18 Old Halloween Fortune-Telling Tricks
• When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats
• 7 Superstitions about Cats from around the World
• Spider Mythology from around the World
• 9 Things You Never Knew about Guy Fawke…
About Time
• So That’s Why Some People Are Night Owls and Others Are Up at the Crack of Dawn
• Daylight Saving Time Is Even Weirder Than You Think
• A New American Revolution Is Starting in New England — Against Daylight Saving Time
• Why Clocks ‘Falling Back’ Are Good for Your Brain
• The Strange Tie Between Daylight Time and Assault Rate…
Around Japan 4
• Gifu’s Yanagiya — Is This the Best Restaurant on the Planet?
• Kaki: The Miracle Japanese Persimmon
• Japanese Women Rank the Otaku Obsessions They Can Most Forgive in a Partner
• City Hands Manhole Covers to Lottery-Picked Buyers
• Translation Debate: How Do You Say “Oh My God!” in Japanes…
Catitudes
• 10 Fascinating Facts about Owls
• 7 Facts You Didn’t Know about Elephant Trunks
• The Animal Most Likely to Kill You in Each State
• The Aerodynamics of Cheetah Tails
• Once Thought Loners, Cougars Revealed to Have Rich Society
• Pumas Are Not Such Loners After Al…
Fear & Clothing
• 72% of Americans Fear a Major War in the Next Four Years
• America’s Top Fears 2017 – Chapman University Survey of American Fears
• ‘Nowhere to Hide’: North Korean Missiles Spur Anxiety in Japan Fishing Town
• China’s President Just Laid out a Worrying Vision for the World
• Jackie Chan Goes Undercover on the Internet and Respon…
Map Lust 2
• The Independence Movements around the World
• Median Age around the World
• Population Density of Africa with US Equivalents
• African Climate with Equivalent Cities from around the World
• Countries by GDP per Square Kilometer
• Computer-Generated Maps Imagine America Redivided into Equal-Population Ar…
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…
Living Space
• Scientists Want Astronauts to Live in a Lava Tube on the Moon
• Scientists Just Found the Perfect Spot to Build an Underground Colony on the Moon
• Japan Just Discovered the Perfect Spot to Build a Moonbase
• Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes for Human Colonisation of Moon
• The Moon Once Had an Atm…
AI’s Black Pandora’s Box
• A MacArthur “Genius” Unearthed the Secret Images That AI Uses to Make Sense of Us
• New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks
• The AI That Has Nothing to Learn from Humans
• ‘It’s Able to Create Knowledge Itself’: Google Unveils AI That Learns on Its Ow…
Cetacean Communication
• Dolphins’ Rich Social Lives May Be Tied to Their Bigger Brains
• Dolphins Have ‘Human-Like’ Societies…But Are Held Back by a Lack of Opposable Thumbs, Say Scientists
• Peer Pressure Forced Whales and Dolphins to Evolve Big Brains, Like Humans
• ‘Human-Like’ Dolphins and Whales Kept Back from World Do…
Art of the Mustache
• Becoming with Sheep (Art Project)
• Need a Good Laugh? Check out Some 17th-Century Dutch Art
• The Dutch Masters Are Back: Blockbuster Vermeer Exhibition Opens at the National Gallery of Art
• Walter Isaacson Goes Inside the Most Creative Mind in History: Leonardo Da Vinci
• Leonardo Da Vinci: The …
Bug Burgers, Kiwi Chips, & Spamburglars
• The World’s Shiniest Living Thing Is an African Fruit That Looks Like a Pointillist Bauble
• Is It Time to Give Bug Burgers a Chance?
• What Does the Hamburger Helper’s Skeleton Look Like?
• Hamburger Helper Reveals What’s Inside the Glove, and It’s Freaking People Out
• Chipocalypse: Potato Shor…
Happy Homemakers
• 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…
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…
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 …
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…
Pass the Cigars, NASA
• The Possibility of Life Beyond Our Solar System Just Got a Lot Slimmer
• How Will Humanity React to Alien Life? Psychologists Have Some Predictions
• What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
• Astronomers Want to Send a Probe to That Interstellar Asteroid, But There’s a Catch
• The Strange, Lumpy World…