• Measuring the Effects of Partisanship on Pie-Eating
• Finland Bakery Sells Dried Cricket Bread, Insect-Based Food Has Protein Than Wheat Load
• Finland Baker Launches Bread Made from Crushed Crickets
• The Hidden History of Scandinavia’s Love of Cardamom
• Survey Finds That Osaka People Don’t Eat Takoyaki Octopus Balls as Much…
Big Bucks
• Countries with Walmart Vs. Countries with McDonald’s
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Just Opened in Shanghai, and We Have One Word: Wow
• World’s Largest, Most Lavish Starbucks Opens in Shanghai
• The World’s Largest Starbucks Is 30,000 Square Feet and Just Opened in China
• These 5 Giant Companies Control the World’s Bee…
Shore Things
• Evolution Row Ends as Scientists Declare Sponges to Be Sister of All Other Animals
• Stunning Footage of Coral Spawning in the Aquarium at the Australian National Sea Simulator
• Fascinating Oyster Facts
• ‘Not Ashamed’: Dolphin Hunters of Taiji Break Silence over Film the Cove
• A Tidy Little Octopus Tos…
Work Developments
• The Best Time of Day to Get Things Done, According to Data
• This Is the Least Productive Time of the Day
• The Concept of Productive Procrastination Is a Myth
• Germany Wants to Scrap the 8-Hour Workday: Here’s What You Should Know
• This Woman Won the Best Job on the Planet
• Dream Job – Squishing…
Art Bits
• Why the Lion Is Art’s Most Powerful Symbol
• Hustle Is as Important as Technique to Cash in on Africa’s Art Boom
• Yasunari Kawabata’s Surrealist Window on the World
• Social Media Accounts You Should Follow If You’re a Fan of Freaky Found Art
• While Men Are Failing, ‘Hidden’ Works by Women Are Being Re…
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…
And No Russian Doubt?
• How the Apollo 11 Crew Reacted to Lunar Conspiracy Theories
• Speech Recognition Technology Used to Analyze Apollo Mission Tapes
• The Lame Reason NASA Gave Up on Sending Astronauts to Venus in 1973
• NASA Creates Amazing ‘Chain Mail’ Wheel for Future Mars Rover…
Museums Amuse
• Using Digitized Botany Specimens, AI Excels in Simple Curatorial Tasks
• Coin-Laden Pot and Rare Pendant Among British Museum’s Record Haul
• The Brooklyn Public Library Is Now Home to a Tiny Mollusk Museum
• Are These the Worst Inventions of All Time? Inside LA’s New Museum of Failur…
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…
School Boared
• Students in Finland, the World’s Best-Educated Country, React to Japan’s Harsh School Rules
• Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Mascot Finalists Unveiled
• Japanese Elementary Students Will Judge the Official 2020 Tokyo Olympics Mascot
• Watch: Wild Boars Cause Havoc at School in Japan
• Wild Boar Shot Dead after Ra…
European Charm Offensive
• Thousands of Strangers Have United to Buy This Abandoned French Castle
• For $61, You Can Become a Co-Owner of This 13th-Century French Castle
• Nobody Lives Here: Parts of France Where Nobody Lives…
• East German Village Sells at Auction for $165,000
• Picturesque Swiss Mountai…
Junk Food News
• Naples’ Pizza Twirling Wins Unesco ‘Intangible’ Status
• Hold the Pineapple: Naples Celebrates as Pizza Awarded Special Status by Unesco
• ISS Astronauts Make Pizza in Zero Gravity
• Astronauts Making Pizza in Zero Gravity on Board the International Space Station
• Oreo Just Revealed Its ‘Mystery Flavor…
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?
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…
Recently Resurfaced
• Super Rich Shown to Have Grown Out of Ancient Farming
• Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tools That Actually Came from Space
• 13 Archaeological Discoveries That Puzzle Modern Scientists
• 13,000 U.S. Archaeology Sites to Be Flooded by Rising Seas
• These 12,000-Year-Old Fish Hooks Are the Oldest to Ever Be Discovered in a Grav…
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?’…
Are We Happy Yet? Poor Us
• It’s Not Just You: Americans Say They Are More Miserable
• Not Only Are Americans Becoming Less Happy — We’re Experiencing More Pain Too
• Americans Are Drowning in Debt. Here’s Where They Have It the Worst
• Americans in Debt
• Millenials’ Troubling Future, by the Numbers
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…
Nature’s Examples Abound
• Stretchable Fabric Battery Could Power Wearables with Sweat
• The Best Hearing Aid in the World Is Made of Spider Silk Dipped in Gold
• Weird Critter May Help Us to Heal Livers
• The Mud That Could Save the World
• Stuffed Animals Help Scientists Learn How Sea Lion Moms…
Chess Whiz Renders World’s Best Toast
• Robots Aren’t Killing Jobs Fast Enough — And We Should Be Worried
• Robots Will Transform Fast Food
• Amazing Robot Table Uses Mechanical Actuators to Move Soccer Balls along Programmed Paths
• Google Taught an AI That Sorts Cat Photos to Analyze DNA
• The Dead-Serious Strategy…
Animal Misbehavior
• Lioness Overjoyed to Reunite with Her Former Human Companion
• An Orangutan Stole My Camera and Took Close-Up Selfies
• Zoogle Selfies from Animals up Their Selfie Game
• Opossum Gets Drunk after Breaking into Liquor Store
• Angry Sea Lion Blocks Blue Planet II Crew from Leaving Docks They Were Filming On…
Birds of the Year 2017
• Pigeons Are Secretly Brilliant Birds That Understand Space and Time, Study Finds
• ‘Hummingbirds Are Where Intuition Goes to Die’
• It Took Almost 180 Years to Figure Out the Incredible Way Hummingbirds Drink
• Galapagos Finches Caught in Act of Becoming New Species
• Conquest Via Bird Poop: One Island at a Tim…
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?…
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
Sleight of Sight
• How Technicolor Revolutionized Cinema with Surreal, Electric Colors & Changed How We See Our World
• Tricks of the Brain: The Magic of Everyday Perception
• NASA Has an Easy Trick to Prove the “Moon Illusion” Is All in Your Head
• See Zig-Zags in This Optical Illusion? Then You’re Suffering from ‘Curvature Blindness’
Country Diary 8
• ‘Having a Bit of a Tinker’: John Clarke, Birds, and the Daily Pleasure of Writing
• Country Diary: Return of the Parish Lengthsman
• Country Diary: Ringing the Changes in the Bird Population
• Country Diary 1967: Sniffing Out Birds at the Sewage Farm
• Country Diary: A Village History Told in Maps
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…
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…
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?…
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…
Beachcombing
• ‘A Gift from the Sky’: Record-Breaking Nine-Hour Rainbow Appears in Taiwan
• The Men Collecting Stardust from Gutters and Rooftops
• The UK’s Impending Microbead Ban Has a Gray Area: Glitter
• To Save the Oceans, Should You Give up Glitter?
• All That Glitter? It’s Not Good, Critics Say
• Irish Beach That Vanished…
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…
Game Power
• Let’s Roll: The Best Board Games for Christmas 2017
• The Best New Board Games for Family Christmas Fun
• Check Out This Unlikely Long Distance Friendship Forged over Words with Friends
• He’s 22. She’s 81. Their Friendship Is Melting Hearts
• 22-Year-Old Man Travels to Meet 81-Year-Old He Befriended in Online Word Gam…
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…
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)…
Country Diary 7
• The Village Working Together to Save Britain’s Turtle Doves
• Country Diary: Sleeping Beauty Knew a Thing or Two about Spindle’s Tempting Lipstick Berries
• Country Diary: Brief Encounter with a Woodcock in the Wildwood
• Country Diary: The Cold Is Bitter, But the Views Are Entrancing
• Country Diary: Even Reduced t…
Exercise in Futility?
• Air Pollution Harm to Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors
• Pollution Wipes out the Benefits of Exercise, Study Suggests
• Traffic Fumes in City Streets ‘Largely Wipe Out Exercise Benefits for Over-60s’
• Why Office Work Kills People’s Will to Exercise
• Is Your Core Strong Enough to Master the Invisible Box…
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…
Taming the Wild Avocado
• Good News: A Microwaved Egg Can’t Permanently Damage Your Hearing
• What Happens When You Microwave a Boiled Egg
• Grocer Offers Stoneless Avocados to Avoid ‘Avocado Hand’
• Millennials, Rejoice: Seedless Avocados Are Here
• Hawaii Woman Hopes to Smash Avocado Record with…
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…
Peak Performance?
• This Tiny Bit of the Brain Helps You Stop Doing Things
• Smiling Could Improve Your Athletic Performance — But Your Grins Can’t Be Fake
• Let Your Mind Wander to Be Perform Better, Think More Creatively, and Manage Your Feelings
• The Best Brainstorming is Divergent
• What Even Are Those Pre-S…
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…
Muji International
• Akiko Katayama: Making the Leap from Business to Food in NYC
• How Muji, Japan’s Most Famous Anti-Brand, Plans to Win America
• Muji Is Now Selling $27,000, 98 Square Foot Micro-Home ‘Huts’
• I Rented a Friend in Japan, and It Made Me a Better Friend
• Strangers Fondle Japanese Woman’s Breasts as Part of ‘Fre…
Aging in Japan
• A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death
• A Lonely Death
• Osaka Mayor to End Sister City Status with San Francisco over ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
• Japan’s Osaka to Snap Sister City Link with San Francisco over ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
• One of Japan’s Few Female Shinto Priests Was Killed in a Samurai-Sword Attack. Was…
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…
Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Can You Hear the Pylons Thud? The Silent Gif Dubbed an ‘Optical Illusion for the Ears’
• A Silent GIF That Somehow Makes You Hear a Sound
• Scientist Seeks to Learn Why Some People Are Able to Hear Silent a GIF of Power Lines Jumping Rope
• A Man Builds an Incredibly Loud, Leaf Blower Powered Train Horn out of a 55 Gallon Dru…
Sense of Hummer
• A Forgotten Underwater Sound Experiment Almost Changed How We Measure Global Warming
• Computers Learn to Use Sound to Find Ships
• Earth’s Most Mysterious Hums, Ranked
• Scientists Have Finally Caught the Eerie Hum of Earth Deep Under the Sea
• Earth’s Hum: Scientists t…
More on the Swostripenguiduckodile
• How to Tell If a Dinosaur Is Fake
• Duck-Dinosaur Hybrid Baffles Scientists with Mixed-Up Body
• This New, Duck-Like Dinosaur Is So Wacky Scientists Thought It Was Fake
• Ancient Penguins Were Giant Waddling Predators
• This Human-Sized Penguin Isn’t Even the Largest Ancient Penguin We Know Abou…
2017 Book Lists
• ‘If Only I’d Been Warned!’ – Writers Choose Books to Give to Their Younger Selves
• The Best Books of 2017, If You Combine 21 “Best Books of 2017” Lists
• University of Iowa Cataloging 4,000 Tiny Literary Jewels
• Bill Gates: 5 Amazing Books I Read in 2017
• Here’s Bill Gates’s 2017 Holiday Reading Lis…
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…
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…
Weight for Santa
• How Much Weight Would Santa Gain from Eating Milk and Cookies at Every House He Visits?
• Santa Claus, Indiana Gets 20,000 Letters a Year — and ‘Elves’ Reply to All of Them
• Here Lies Santa Claus? Researchers Zero In on Bones of St. Nick
• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
Oh, Christmas Tree
• Ridicule as Police Say Kissing Under the Mistletoe without Consent Is ‘Rape’
• Inside the Upside Down: The Murky Origins of a Puzzling Christmas Tree Trend
• A Day in the Life of a Christmas Tree Farm
• Cloverdale’s Only Christmas Tree Farmer Says, ‘It’s Not as Easy as People Think’
• Ho, No: Christmas Trees W…
Feline Navidad
• Cats vs Christmas Trees Supercut Shows Felines at Their Holiday Worst
• Cat Crashes Nativity Scene
• Cat as Baby Jesus Is a Freakin’ Christmas Gift
• Grumpy Nativity-Scene Cat Accidentally Spreads Holiday Cheer
• Woman Finds Fox Squatting in Her Cat’s Bed
• Grandma Thinks She’s Been…
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…
The Purple Color
• Eye Doctors Still Use This 100-Year-Old Test for Color Blindness
• Pantone Project: A Photographer’s Quest to Capture Colour
• The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665-1810)
• Pantone’s Color Of The Year Is Here, and It’s As Nebulous As 2018 Looks…
Glass of Water for Mr. Humphrys
• British Water Companies Are Searching for Leaks with Divining Rods and I’m So Angry I Could Cry
• Water Firms Backtrack on Admissions That They Use Divining Rods
• Water Companies Admit to Using ‘Divination’ in Order to Find Leaks
• ‘Dowsing Works,’ Says Humphrys Aft…
Meta-Implosions
• Georgia Dome Demolition Coverage Gets Wrecked in the Best Way Possible
• Cameraman Waits 40 Minutes for Historic Demolition – Only for Bus to Ruin His Shot with Impeccable Timing
• Bus Ruins TV Footage of Georgia Dome Demolition: ‘No Bus! Go Away!’
• Pontiac Silverdome Defies Explosives, and Twitter Snicker…
Red All Over
• How an Italian Immigrant Rolled Out the Radio Flyer Wagon Across America
• There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House
• Facebook Bans Artist’s ‘Sexual’ Robin Redbreast Christmas Cards
• Artist’s ‘Sexual’ Robin Redbreast Christmas Cards Banned by Faceboo…
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
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…
Different Shades of Bad
• The Secret Behind ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Movies
• Why the Movies Are So Obsessed with Capes
• These Are the 61 Best Documentaries of All Time
• Lovely Film on 100-Year-Old St. Louis Landmark Crown Candy
From the Letter Bag
• One of World’s Most Prominent Scrabble Players Banned Temporarily for Cheating
• We Should Forgive Scrabble Cheats. Board Games Bring out the Worst in Us
• Double Letter Flaw: Champion Scrabble Player Banned amid Cheating Furore
• Family Board Games Set for Christmas Comeback
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…
Thinking Points
• Alan Alda: Relating Through Improvisation
• Nobel Prize Winners Are Put to the Task of Drawing Their Discoveries
• What to Do 30 Days, Hours, and Minutes Before A Brainstorming Session
• How Elon Musk Uses the Scientific Method
• Highly Intelligent Leaders Rated as Less Effectiv…
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
Reading Recollections
• Whole Earth Contributor Lloyd Kahn Walks Us Through a Rare First Edition of the Iconic Catalog
• How Many of These Jazz Age Classics Have You Read?
• Watership Down Author’s Personal Library Reveals Precious Treasures
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Book: No 93 — Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Ur…
Women Continue to Speak Out
• Tom Colicchio’s Open Letter to Male Chefs: ‘Enough Sexist …Talk’
• He’s a Creep, But Wow, What an Artist!
• Women in Tech Warn of More Harassment Allegations to Come
• The Sexist Dinosaurs Aren’t Only on the Prowl in Old Media
• Silence Lifts in Statehouses as Harassment Scandals Bring S…
New York Life
• The Subtle Art and Serious Physics of Subway Surfing
• NYC Transport Replaces ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ with Gender-Neutral Announcements
• New York Today: Subway Announcements Get a Human Touch
• NYC Invalidates $26 Million Worth of Parking Tickets over Tiny Error
• Man Finds Car 20 Y…
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…
Around Japan 8
• Raze, Rebuild, Repeat: Why Japan Knocks down Its Houses after 30 Years
• Bold as Brass: Trombonists Take over Last Train, Earn Twitter Fans and Critics
• Japan Anger over South Korea’s Shrimp Surprise for Donald Trump
• Japanese Company Tries to Create Motivational Poster, Accidentally Creates Demotivati…
Aussie Trends
• Australians Vote to Name New Sydney Harbor Boat ‘Ferry McFerryface’
• Sydney Ferry Named Ferry McFerryface after ‘Boaty’ Rejected
• There Is Now a Ferry McFerryface Ferry, and the Crew Is Ticked
• Australian Pigeons Have a Specially Evolved Feather to Better Annoy the Heck Out O…
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…
Sly Cockatoos, Ferocious Otters, Irish Wallabies
• What the Heck Are Wallabies Doing in Ireland?
• Hibernating Turtles Are Still Aware of What’s Going on around Them
• Chimps Can Gesticulate with the Best of Them
• Tricky Cockatoos Match Shapes Better Than Primates
• The Bear That Inspired Winnie-The-Pooh
• Ancient Wolf-Size Otter H…
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…
Knee Jerks
• Move Over, Gentlemen: ‘Womanspreading’ Is Now a Thing
• Watch Out, Manspreaders: the Womanspreading Fightback Starts Now
• Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others?
• Why Lefties Have a Competitive Edge in Certain Sports
• Why Are Some People…
Tread Lightly, Grasshopper
• Watch a 17th-Century Portrait Magically Get Restored to Its Brilliant Original Colors
• Researchers Find Grasshopper Stuck in Classic Van Gogh Painting
• Tiny Grasshopper Found Hidden in Van Gogh Painting, 128 Years Later
• Dead Grasshopper Discovered in Vincent Van Gogh Painting
• Conservators Discover…
When the White Men Leave Their Huts
• UK Media Should Stop Peddling Colonial Era Narratives
• The White Man’s Blunders of ‘Explorer’ Benedict Allen Feed Racist Myths
• What’s the Difference Between Explorers, Anthropologists and Tourists?
• British Explorer Benedict Allen ‘Goes Missing in Jungle’ While Searching for Lost Tribe
• Family of British Explore…
Country Diary 6
• Cracking on With the Walnut Harvest in Suffolk
• Country Diary: Autumn Is Particularly Busy for Red Squirrels of Formby
• Country Diary: Hand-Chiselled Headstones Speak in Rural Accents
• Country Diary: Pines That Went to Passchendaele
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…
AI Applications 1
• How Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Archival Museum Research
• Using Digitized Botany Specimens, AI Excels in Simple Curatorial Tasks
• Can Swarming Robots and Cloud Umbrellas Help Save Coral Reefs?
• Drip by Kickstarter, a Continuously Funding Tool for Artists to Build Community a…
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 …
Crispy, Crackly Pickleback Pop?
• Standard Measurement Scales for Crispy, Crackly, and Crunchy Foods
• Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?
• Scientists Discover Grass That Tastes Like Salt and Vinegar Crisps
• A Brief History of the Pickleback Shot
• What Is Cold Brew Coffee — a…
Country Diary 5
• Country Diary 1917: Drizzle and the Dripping, Decaying Wood
• Country Diary: The Wood Pigeons Are on the Move
• Country Diary: Kingfisher Inspires Myth
• Country Diary: A Curious Tower Sends Me over the Edge
Trees & Trimmings
• Trees in Some Cities Grow Faster Than in the Wild, and Here’s the Crazy Reason Why
• A Lovely Scientific Appreciation of Trees
• Giant Fungus Covering over 2,200 Acres Is the Largest Living Organism Ever Discovered
• 2,190 Miles on the Appalachian Trail
• Christmas Trees: Science Has Finally Found the Answ…
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…
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…
Robot Roundup 2
• Obedient, Cheerful Robots Are Making Us Terrible at Relationships
• Ban on Killer Robots Urgently Needed, Say Scientists
• SpotMini: The Headless Robotic Dog Sure to Give You Nightmares
• Boston Dynamics Gives SpotMini Robot a Sleek Restyling
• Boston Dynamics Is Still Making Creepy Robots Under SoftBank
• Resist the Urge to Pet Boston…
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…
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…
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?…
Unspeakable Horrors of Japan’s Rail System
• New York’s Holiday Nostalgia Trains
• Japanese Rail Company Apologises after Train Departs 20 Seconds Early
• Japanese Rail Company Apologises after Train Leaves 20 Seconds Early
• Tokyo Train Company’s Apology for 20-Second-Early Departure Is One of the Best Things about Japa…
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’
Breathe & Sleep Deep
• Neuroscientists Have Identified How Exactly a Deep Breath Changes Your Mind
• Science Says Controlled Breathing May Help Alleviate Stress
• People with Certain Blood Types Appear to Be More at Risk from Air Pollution
• Napping on the Job May Turn out to Be a Very Good Idea for a Sleep-Deprived Natio…
Feel the Earth Move
• Scientists Are about to Test a Devastating Hypothesis: 2018 Will Suffer a Lot of Big Earthquakes
• Could a Change in the Earth’s Spin Lead to More Earthquakes Next Year? – Rocky Planet
• The Real Science Behind the Unreal Predictions of Major Earthquakes in 2018
• Why Do Lights Sometimes Appear in the Sky During an…
Slip into the Library
• Salting Roads Saves Lives, But Also Takes a Major Environmental Toll
• A Hilarious Japanese Game Show Featuring Contestants Struggling to Climb Slippery Stairs
• Slippery Stairs Is the Japanese Game Show the World Never Knew It Needed
• The Stairs in a Viral Sensation Public Library in Ch…
What a Crab
• Amelia Earhart May Have Been Eaten by Three-Foot Crabs
• Was Amelia Earhart Eaten by Giant Land Crabs?
• Amazing Video Shows Coconut Crab Killing Bird in Brutal Fashion
• Giant Coconut Crab Seen Hunting Birds
• These Crabs Can Grow up to 3 Feet — And Hunt Birds, a Biologist’s Video Prove…
All at Sea
• Range of Pinnipedia
• The Colossal Squid Is a Real-Life Sea Monster
• Is the Mysterious Sea Cucumber Slipping out of Our Grasp?
• 10 Juicy Facts about Sea Apples
• Even Scientists Were Blown Away by These Weird Sea Creatures They Found
• 8 Fascinating Facts about…
Always New Old Things to Find
• Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission
• Ancient Fortress Found at Bottom of Lake in Turkey
• San Francisco Shipwreck: Divers Find ‘Cannonball Clue’
• Archaeologist Uncovers Rich History at Bradford’s Lost Football Ground
• Evidence of World’s Earliest Winemaking Uncovered by…
Flat Earth Will Get You Nowhere
• What Do Aliens Look Like? Oxford Astrobiologists Draw a Picture, Based on Darwinian Theories of Evolution
• New Keys to Help Extraterrestrials Unlock Our Messages
• Life on Earth Arrived on Super-Fast Clouds of Cosmic Dust, Study Suggests
• Here’s the Weird Alphabet…
Lost & Found Art
• Rare Photograph of Billy the Kid Found at a Flea Market
• ‘Lost’ Masterpiece by Spanish Artist Found Hanging in Welsh Castle
• This Man Was Living on $200 a Month When He Sold a ‘Worthless’ Blanket for $1.5 Million
• Stolen Painting Worth Estimated $165M Found Behind Bedroom Doo…
Da Vinci Still Stirs
• Which of These Three Artworks Should Go on View at the National Portrait Gallery?
• Palettes of the Masters: Gauguin
• All the Da Vincis in the World: Rated
• People Are Obsessed with Watching an Art Dealer Remove Varnish from a 200-Year-Old Painting
• Why Did Leonardo Da Vinci…
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…
Trash to Treasure
• The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
• High-Tech Skyscrapers Could Be Built with Low-Tech Wood
• The Skyscrapers of the Future Could Be Built with the Garbage of Today
• Boaters Stumble on Massive Caribbean Gyre of Plastic Garbage
• Sweden’s Recycling Program Is Doing So Well They’ve Run Ou…
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…
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
Face Recognition
• Named-Cow Researcher Recognizes Merit in Research on Sheep Recognizing People
• How Do Animals Recognize Each Other?
• People Can Accurately Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions
• How to Have a Well-Behaved Puppy: Make Sure It Sees a Man with a Mustache Within Six Weeks of Birth
• Dog Ownership Is Linked t…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Let’s Talk Turkey
• The Dreaded ‘Turkey Drop’: Here’s Why Couples Break up around Thanksgiving
• Here’s the Deal with All Those Turkeys Terrorizing the Suburbs
• Meet the Turkey’s Glamorous Mexican Cousin
• How to Win the Wishbone Wish
• Why Do U.S. Presidents Pardon Turkeys, Anyway?
• 25 Things You Didn’t Know about Turkeys
Worth the Weight?
• #WeirdThanks…itions Is the Holiday Hashtag You Never Knew You Needed
• The Most-Googled Thanksgiving Pies and Sides in Every State
• The Cranberry: America’s Founding Fruit
• The Pawpaw: The All-American Fruit the Country Forgot
• U.S. Pumpkin Growers Toast Nontraditional Demand for Frui…
Thanks for the Clarification
• Most Everything You Learned about Thanksgiving Is Wrong
• A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Thanksgiving
• The True Story Behind Plymouth Rock
• Thanksgiving Is an Annual Reminder of America’s Refugee Origins
• At Thanksgiving, the Search for a Black Pilgrim Among Plym…
Device Advice
• Humorous PSA Videos Promoting Device-Free Dinners Starring Will Ferrell as a Phone Addicted Dad
• Our Smartphone Addiction Is Killing Us: Study
• 69% of Millennials Stress out When Away from Their Phones
• Does ‘Phone Separation Anxiety’ Really Exist?
• Which Computer Keys Wear Out First…
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…
Viewing Pleasure
• The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning until the Startling End
• New Book on Practical Geometry for Designers, Builders and History Lovers: ‘From Truths to Tools’
• Why Do We Get So Much Pleasure from Symmetry?
• Don’t Look at My Nipples
• The Faces on Every U.S. Bil…
Eco-Effects
• Percent of Forests by Land Area in Europe
• Rare Victory for Rainforests as Nations Vow to Stop ‘Death by Chocolate’
• Which Costs More in Electricity Use: Using a Hairdryer or Microwaving a Meal?
• Google Is Mapping Out Air Pollution Levels on Google Earth
• Big Meat and Big Dairy Emit Enough Carbon to Put Exxon M…
Spies & Secrets
• Spy Mystery of British Sisters Who Helped Jewish Refugees Flee the Nazis
• Can You Solve It? Secrets of Russian Intelligence
• How a Master Grifter Taught the FBI to Crack Open the Art of the Deal
• The Homemaker Who Helped Solve One of Geometry’s Oldest Puzzles
• The Hidden Meaning of Kid…
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
Let It Go
• After the NYC Marathon, Where Does All the Poop Go?
• A Portable Kit Relies on Everyday Items to Bring Toilets to Disaster Zones
• Is It Dangerous to Hold Your Urine?
• There’s No Toilet Like Home
Democracy in Peril
• Climate Policy Can Help Avert Modern Liberalism’s ‘Doom Loop’
• The Doom Loop of Modern Liberalism
• Democracy Is Like Fun: You Can’t Set Your Mind to Having It
• The Death of Liberalism in Japan
• We Have to Rethink What “Educated” Means in a Post-Truth World
• A Philosopher Ponders the…
Demography in Turmoil
• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…
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…
Lost Their Bearings, Or Missing Some
• Sailors Who Braved Months Lost at Sea Finally Reached Land. But Parts of Their Story Are Facing Doubt
• Women Rescued at Sea ‘Had Unused Emergency Beacon’ — US Coast Guard
• Questions Arise in the Story of Two Women Lost at Sea for 5 Months
• Drunk Florida Woman Riding a Horse Charged with a DU…
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
Tuition & Intuition
• University of California’s 8 Personal Insight Questions
• Oxford University Releases New Round of Interview Questions
• Solving the Riddle of Getting into Oxford
• ‘We Aren’t Trying to Wrong-Foot Them’: The Truth about the Oxbridge Interview
• A Yale Psychologist’s Sim…
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…
Pacific Gravity
• The Most Popular World Leaders
• Asians Talk about Expectations for Trump’s Visit
• Abe and Trump to Rekindle Friendship, But Not All See Rapport as Positive for Japan, Survey Says
• South Korea Can’t Resist Shading Japan at Its Dinner for Trump
• The All-Female Police For…
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…
New New Zealand Laws
• New Zealand Considers Creating Climate Change Refugee Visas
• A Proposal in New Zealand Could Trigger the Era of ‘Climate Change Refugees’
• New Zealand Is Banning Foreigners from Buying Houses
• New Zealand Compared to Italy
• The Secrets of Zealandia: The Lost Continent of the South
Getting Cold
• Can You Freeze Eggs to Keep Them Longer?
• New Study Could Explain the Elusive Reason Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
• What Does the Cold Virus Get in Return for Making Its Host Feel Grotty?
• The Real Reasons We All Get Sick at This Time of Year
• Why Some People Can’t Sleep Without a Fa…
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…
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…
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…
Another War That Wasn’t
• Soviet Submarine Officer Who Averted Nuclear War Honoured with Prize
• When the World Lucked Out of a Nuclear War
• 10 of the World’s Weirdest Wars (and Where to Remember Them)
• During WWII, Mathematician Arne Beurling Made One of the Greatest…
• How the Tech Workers of WWII Thwarted the Nazis with H…
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…
Around Japan 6
• Abandoned Land in Japan Will Be the Size of Austria by 2040
• Mount Fuji Has Become So Congested with Tourists That It Has Reached Breaking Point
• How Japanese High-Speed Trains Handle Earthquakes
• The Greatest Earthquake Zones on Earth
• What Do Volcano Warning Signs Really Tell Us?
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…
Harrassment Claims Spread
• Sexual Harassment Allegations Hit the Restaurant Business
• When Will the ‘Harvey Effect’ Reach Academia?
• Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
• ‘It’s Hurting Everyone’: The Truth about Sexual Misconduct in the Art World
• 2,000 Women Are Speaking out Against Rampant Sexual Harassment in the Art Worl…
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…
Of Bottles & Ships
• Picking Up Beer Bottles with an Excavator Is Harder Than It Sounds
• This Man Has a Collection of 1200 Messages in Bottles
• $450,000 Antique Treasure Map Found in Attic
• Unusual ‘Coffee Table’ Is a Mosaic from One of Caligula’s Party Ships
• Historians May Have Been Wrong about This Ancient Ro…
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…
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…
Meals on Wheels, Wings, & Instagram
• A Japanese Convenience Store Used Drones to Deliver Fried Chicken to Fukushima
• Drone Delivers Food to Japan Town Hit by Nuclear Disaster
• How to Buy Milk at the Store in Japan, Even If You Don’t Read or Speak Any Japanese
• Meals on Wheels ‘Should Dish Out Keep-Fit Tips’ to Stave Off Infirmit…
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…
Runway Showstopper
• Even Earless Oysters Clam up over Noise Pollution
• The Plight of the Sea Otter
• This 450-Pound Seal Removed from Alaska Airport Runway
• Huge Sunbathing Seal Brings Alaskan Airport to a Halt
• Huge Bearded Seal Blocks Airport Runway in Alaska
• Climate Change and Overfishing Bring Explosion of Jellyfish
Animal Attraction
• A Giant Flock of Birds Inexplicably Descends upon the Lawn of a Laurel, Montana Home
• Thousands of Venomous Portuguese Man O’ Wars Wash Ashore in Australia: ‘It Was the Stuff of Nightmares’
• Thousands of Venomous Sea Creatures Have Invaded Australia’s Shores
• Senility, Storms, Global …
Squirrel World News
• 10 Things You Don’t Know about Chipmunks
• How Does a Red Squirrel Cross the Road? French Local Authority Thinks It Has the Answer
• Fall Is for Squirrels
• Medieval Love of Squirrel Fur May Have Helped Spread Leprosy, Study Reveals
• Bolve Like a Stag
• Bison Comeback Story Has Bronx Accen…
Around Japan 5
• The Secret Lives of Japanese Families: 8 Unusual Household Rules Revealed
• Japanese Artist Reveals the Truth Behind All Those Happy Photos on Social Media
• Japanese Artist Illustrates the Right and Wrong Ways to Carry an Umbrella on Public Transport
• Why Do Japanese People Wear Medical Masks in Public?
• A Japanes Teenager is S…
Think Back
• This New Study Shows That People Who ‘Think Backwards’ Are More Successful
• Daydreaming During Meetings? It Might Just Mean Your Brain’s Too Big to Not Wander
• People Who Daydream Are More Intelligent: Study
• Daydreaming May, in Fact, Be a Sign of Greater Intelligence
• Is There Any Benefit to Daydream…
People Talk
• 30 Unusual Christmas Presents for Him and for Her
• Gratitude and Hammocks: Oprah’s Out with Her Favorite Things
• Dance Legend Twyla Tharp on Truculent Men, Selling Hot Dogs and Her Idol Agatha Christie
• Chrissy Teigen Shares Her Thoughts on Motherhood and U.S. Presidents While Answering 73 Question…
Robot Roundup 1
• Should Children Form Emotional Bonds with Robots?
• Saudi Arabia Bestows Citizenship on a Robot Named Sophia
• Saudi Arabia’s Robot Love Is Getting Weird
• Ford Built a Robot Butt to Test the Seats in Its Cars
• This Robot Snake Means You No Harm, Really
• Do Russian-Backed Bots …
Tech to The Future
• Are the Amish Right about New Technology?
• Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
• Advice on How to Predict the Future, from a Professor Whose Job Is to Predict the Future
• ‘Slightly Crazy’ 19th-Century Weathermen Who Braved Formidable Conditions Could Aid Climate Predictions
• Stephen Hawking Says the …
Take This Job
• The Reason Every Cool Guy Wants to Be a Butcher or a Bartender Now
• Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump’s Account on Last Day of Work
• ‘Eff You and Goodbye’: How the Bravest Among Us Quit Their Jobs in Style
• Last Laugh: What Did You Do on Your Last Day of Work?
• He Quit JetBlue by Slidin…
Bedtime Stories
• How Many of Us Still Read a Book in Bed?
• 11 Ridiculously Overdue Library Books (That Were Finally Returned)
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time: No 92 — The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
• Umberto Eco on Unread Books
• Found: A Long-Lost Copy of John Donne’s Fart-Filled Satire
• 12 of the World’s Most …
Splitting Words
• The Guardian View on Translation: An Interpretative and Creative Act
• ‘Battle of the Dictionaries’ Ends in Victory for Casino as Court Rules Star Poker Player Cheated
• What Is ‘Edge-Sorting’ and Why Did It Cost a Poker Star $10 Million in Winnings?
• Supreme Court Delves into Semantics of English in a Capital Cas…
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…
Language Universals
• German Untranslatable Words
• What English-Language Courtroom Dramas Sounds Like to Swedes
• 25 Words You Didn’t Know Were in the Dictionary
• Is an All-English Classroom Good for Students?
• What Is Universal Grammar?
• What Is Neurolinguistics?
• Grammarly Debuts IOS Keyboard App to Help Improv…
Grammar School
• Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeias
• How to Arrange (and Rearrange) Prepositional Phrases
• Become an Expert in Using Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• What Are the Parts of a Prepositional Phrase?
• List of the Principal Parts of Some Common Irregular Verbs in Englis…
Embodiment of Art
• Could a Farting Statue Unite Brexit Britain?
• 25 Million Images from 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized & Put Online in One Huge Scholarly Archive
• 2,000+ Impressionist, Post-Impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes
• Barnes Collection Online
• When Claude Monet Slashed…
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…
Sugar, Cream, Or Sake?
• Caffe Latte with Sake: The Newest Way to Relax in Kyoto
• Trendy Coffee Shops Are Now Adding Oat Milk to Your Brew
• Crushing an Egg into Your Coffee Sounds Disgusting — But It Makes an Amazing-Tasting Drink
• What’s the Price of Coffee in Japan? Twitter User Investigates
• Starbucks Is Bringing an Italian Bakery Chain to th…
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…
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…
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…
Pet Tales
• Scientists Rated 25 Animals for Who Makes the Best Pet. The No. 1 Spot Is Surprising (It’s Not a Dog)
• Some Humans Seem to Care More about Pets Than People … But Why?
• Dogs Are Better Than People, and a New Study Says Everyone Feels the Same
• Dogs Smell Your Emotional State and It Affects Their Moo…
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…
Power to Go
• Ingenious New Sewage Treatment System Generates Electricity and Clean Water
• Waste Toilet Paper Could Produce Lots of Electricity
• World’s Largest Laser Could Solve Our Energy Problems
• Can a Carbon ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Save the Planet?
• DeepMind Wants to Find the Next Miracle material — Experts Just Don’t Know H…
Driver Ed, Then & Now
• Self-Driving Vehicles Could Make Jaywalking Legal
• Researchers Go After the Biggest Problem with Self-Driving Cars
• The Latest Fake Town Built for Self-Driving Cars Has Opened in South Korea
• A Glimpse Inside the Secret Site Where Driverless Cars Undergo 20,000 Tests
• Millions of Professional …
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…
Mammoth Findings
• Male Woolly Mammoths Were the Wile E. Coyotes of the Ice Age
• Male Woolly Mammoths Lived Fast, Died Young, and Left More Corpses
• Huge News: Scientists Solve Mystery of Dead Male Woolly Mammoths
• Male Mammoths Tended to Die in Really Silly Ways
• Humans Didn’t Outsmart th…
Country Diary 4
• Top 10 Books about Pastoral Life
• Country Diary: In the Slow Lane of an Old Roman Road
• Country Diary 1917: Passing Companionship in the Wood
• Country Diary: One Spider to Make a Song and Dance About
• Country Diary 1967: Summit Cairn Vandals
• Country Diary: Insects Still Find Sanctuary in the P…
Character Reference
• Apple Revealed Which Emoji Americans Use the Most
• Apple Says ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ Is Most Popular Emoji in United States Among English Speakers
• Think Twice Before You Use Emoticons. People from Other Countries Might Not Understand You
• These 69 New Emojis Have Arrived — Which Is Your Fav…
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…
Clearing up Fall Food
• Sweet Potato or Yam?
• Pumpkins Versus Gourds
• Elephants Vs. Giant Pumpkins
• The Elephants of the Oregon Zoo Gleefully Squish Some Giant Pumpkins to Celebrate the Fall Season
• How Do You Breed a 2,624 Pound Pumpkin?
• Pumpkins Evolved from a Literal Genetic (Monster) Mash-Up
• The Great Pumpkin-Pie Consp…
The Sound of Fear
• NASA Rocket Scientists Carve the Most Incredible Pumpkins
• Get in the Halloween Spirit with a NASA-Curated Playlist of Spooky Space Sounds
• NASA Playlist of the Incredible ‘Sounds of Space’
• A “Spooky Sounds” Playlist Direct from Outer Space, Compiled by NASA for Halloween
• What Song Terrifies You?
• Fear Can Make You a Bette…
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…
Licorice Sticking Point
• The FDA Just Flat-Out Called This Halloween Candy Dangerous
• The FDA Has a Warning for People Who Love Black Licorice
• Licorice Lovers Beware: FDA Warns Eating Too Much May Have Dangerous Side Effects
• Black Licorice Is Bad for Your Heart, FDA Warns
• Why Do So Many of Us Hate Black Licorice…
Costume Creativity
• 4,626 People in Japan Set World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Waldo
• School Sets Record for Number of People Dressed Like Penguins
• Halloween 2017: The Costumes That Won the Internet
• Justin Trudeau Dressed as Clark Kent for Halloween and It Was Super, Man
• One Legged Athlete Josh …
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…
Treedom
• From Tennessee to Japan, Here Are 9 Otherworldly Forest Bathing Destinations
• A Biologist Believes That Trees Speak a Language We Can Learn
• The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us about Being Rather Than Seeming
• When You Think of Freedom, Remember the Charter of the Forest, Not the Ma…
Wanderlist 1
• 10 Simple Ways to Travel without Looking Like a Tourist
• Egypt’s Capital Cairo Is Worst Megacity for Women Worldwide, London Best
• Scotland’s Northeastern Scenery Circuit — 500 Miles of Sheep, History and Whisky
• Stonehenge Builders Feasted on Animals Brought from Scotland, Study Shows
• From Andes to Amazon: …
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…
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…
Human Nature 2
• Seven Things We Wish We Didn’t Care About But Do
• 13 Questions That Will Change Your Life
• ‘Screw It, Just Do It’: Life Advice from Sir Richard Branson
• Why Adults Need to Play More Often
• The Science Behind Why People Who Prefer the Window Seat Are More Selfish
• The Art of Thinking Wel…
Old Dogu, New Tricks
• Swedish-To-English IKEA Product Name Dictionary
• A Cut Above the Rest: How Finland’s Orange-Handled Scissors Inspired a Design Revolution
• MIT Sophomore Designs Winter Sleeping Bags for Syrian Refugees
• Adventure Tape: Super Useful, Reusable Alternative to Duct Tape, Bungie Cords and Rop…
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…
History’s Mysteries
• 10 Historical Events with Hilarious Forgotten Details
• Girl’s Message in a Bottle Finally Answered after 29 Years
• This Nuclear Fallout Shelter Was Untouched for 55 Years. It Might Come in Handy Now
• Long-Forgotten Rodin Sculpture Discovered in New Jersey Town Hall
• The Buried Secrets of the World’s Very First Lighthous…
Books to School
• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…
Science Guides
• Bill Nye Had a Fixed View on GMOs. Then Something Happened
• The Earth’s Interior Is Teeming with Dead Plates
• Temperature Is Not What You Think It Is
• A Schlieren Wave Using Cellophane and a Flaming Ping Pong Ball to Make Air Visible with Bright Colors
• How Balloons Are Made fro…
The Shows Must Go On
• Netflix: Which Shows Are Being Binged the Fastest?
• This Country Has More Netflix Ultra Binge-Watchers Than Anywhere Else in the World
• BingeClock, a Website That Lets You Know How Long It Takes to Watch an Entire TV or Movie Series
• The 50 Best TV Shows to Binge-Watch Right Now
• You Thought Downton Abbey…
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…
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…
Mind & Machine
• The Ethical Knob: Ethically-Customisable Automated Vehicles and the Law (New Study)
• Stephen Fry’s Lecture on a Hopeful, Cautious, Excited Vision of a Better Technological World
• Here Is How Modern Science Approaches the Phenomenon of Soul
• The Dark Side of Laughter
• Body Atlas Reveals Where …
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…
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…
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…
Country Diary 3
• Country Diary 1917: Bungled Wasps’ Nest Theft Leads to Discovery
• Country Diary: Sycamores Create Painterly Clumps of Colour and Shade
• Country Diary: The Air Is Heavy with the Scent of Apples
• Country Diary: Up to the Gills in Toadstool Spores
Country Diary 2
• Country Diary: Stalking Red Deer on the Fringes of the City
• Country Diary 1917: Fungi Flourishes amid Autumn Decay
• Country Diary: Henry III’s Charter Helped This Tree Survive to a Ripe Old Age
• Country Diary: The Autumn Run Is a Bruising Experience for the Fish
Inspiration Is Where You Find It
• Gecko-Inspired Gripper May Soon Snag Space Junk
• A Better Touch Screen, Inspired by Moth Eyes
• Dancing Balls Lead to a Physics Discovery
• Snow-White Beach in Australia Is Made up of Billions of Cockle Shells
• Snail in the Coffin: Left-Coiling Mollusc Jeremy Dies after Finding Lov…
Meh
• Why Sheep Calls Have That Unmistakable Vibrato
• Scientists Investigate Why Crows Are so Playful
• Listen to the Impossibly Adorable Sounds of a Baby Sloth
• Raccoons Pass Famous Intelligence Test — By Upending It
• There’s Nothing Squirrely about a Squirrel’s Memory for Puzzles
• Chimps Understand Ro…
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…
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 …
Bug Changes Ahead?
• Monarch Butterflies Migrate 3,000 Miles — Here’s How
• Why Stink Bug Populations Are Booming in 2017 (and What You Can Do about It)
• These Ants Seem to Prefer Living on Tectonic Faults
• To Find Nectar, Bees Follow Blue Halos
• Flowers Have Secret Blue Halos That Bumblebees Can See
• 7 Surprising Insect …
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 …
Field of Drones
• Albatross Teaches Drones the Art of Marathon Flights
• Drones Are Keeping Watch on the Arctic’s Polar Bear Population
• Drones Save Fawns from Terrible Fates
• Defibrillator Drones Aim to Respond in 911 Calls
• Drones Help Discover Lost City with Ties to Alexander the Great
• Engineers Invent Folding Delivery Drone That Carries C…
Slices of Life
• What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle
• Smalltown America Finds Ecstasy at Dollar General
• Photographer’s Spot-On Photo Series Reveals What Women Want from Their Partners
• These Family Photos Don’t Sugarcoat the Everyday Chaos of Parenting
• Photographer Shoots the Same People Going to Work Over 9…
Food for the Senses
• Grocery Shoppers Buy More Food When the Music Is Slower
• This Song Is So Relaxing, Scientists Recommend NOT Listening While Behind the Wheel
• More Songs’ Emotional Moods Inverted with Key Changes
• The First Batch of 2018 Colors of the Year Is Here
• What You Call a Color Depends on How You Use It
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…
Disruptive Evolution
• Birds as Our Spiritual Messengers
• Great Tits May Be Evolving Bigger Beaks. Here’s Why.
• Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks
• Birds Might Be Evolving to Eat from Bird Feeders, Study Says
• See How Human Activity Is Changing Animal Migration Patterns
• The Inner Life of An…
Watch Those Big Brown Eyes
• Gesundheit! African Wild Dogs ‘Vote’ with Sneezes
• Are Dogs the Only Animals That Show When They’re Happy?
• Those ‘Puppy Eyes’ Are All for You
• Dogs Attempt to Communicate with Us Through Facial Expressions
• Dogs Have Pet Facial Expressions to Use on Humans, Study Find…
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…
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…
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
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Bolshoe Spasibo, Colonel Petrov
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• 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
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Dust Off Your Didgeridoo and Snore No More
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• Are Cats Solid or Liquid? And Other Award-Winning Absurd Scientific Research of 2017
• 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
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Born Furry
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• 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
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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
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Bug Woes After Harvey
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Undersea Wonders
• A Look Inside the Newly Discovered City Built by Octopuses
• Scientists Just Discovered the First Brainless Animal That Sleeps
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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
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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
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Skunks, Sloths, & Feline Physics
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Herd Recently
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• To Save the Planet, Scientists Figured out How to Fix Cow Farts
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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
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Very Special Delivery
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Cold Cases
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Now That’s Clever
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38,690-Day-Old Fruitcake
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Random Acts of Awe
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• When the Mind Wanders
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Prototype Tablet App
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On the Road
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Playa Ukulele, Anyone?
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Book & Film Lists 1
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Back to School Special
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Around the House 1
• Why Mattresses Come with Warning Tags
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• How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
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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?
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Around Japan 2
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• Homeless in Japan, Part 2: Who They Are
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Test of Character 1
• Which Reptile Are You? [quiz]
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• 16 Tweets That Will Speak to Your Soul If You’re an Introvert
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War Stories
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• During WW II Two Americans Escaped the Japanese by Sailing 3,000 Miles in a Wooden Fishing Boat
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Poo Corner
• How Poop Makes the World Go ‘Round
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• The Secret Life of Burning Man’s 1,700 Porta Potties
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Howlin’ Wolves, Muddy Waters, and Squirrel Talk
• A Hurricane by Any Other Name
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• Who Decides Hurricane Names?
• What Hurricanes Can Dredge Up: Coffins, Canoes and Creatures
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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
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Customs & Emigration
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• Garçon! Some Outdated, Embarrassing Phrases, Por Favor
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Artificial Ingredients
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• Orchestra Conductors Watch Out – Here’s a Robot Who Can Do the Job
• Robot Conductor Leads Beautiful Live Orchestra Performance
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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
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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
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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
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• 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
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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
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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)
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Who’s Happiest?
• The Happiest States in America
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• 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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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• 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…
Living Color
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• A Nostalgic Look at Crayons
• Meet Crayola’s Newest Crayon Color: Bluetiful
• Why There Are so Few Words for Blue
• Dulux’s Colour of the Year, Heart Wood, Soothes Against the ‘Instability’ of the World
• The Real Difference Between Warm and Cool Colors