• 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…
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…
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…
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?’…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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: …
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…
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…
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…
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
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Bolshoe Spasibo, Colonel Petrov
• The “Man Who Saved the World” from Nuclear Annihilation Has Died
• Stanislav Petrov, Who Averted Nuclear War, Dies at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, the ‘Man Who Saved the World’ Dies at 77
• Soviet Officer Who Averte…
Born Furry
• This Man Is Like the Jane Goodall of Bears
• Meet the Jane Goodall of Bears
• Jane, a Biographical Film about the Remarkable Jane Goodall Inspired by Lost Footage of Her Work
• Documentary Shows Jane Goodall in New Light with Unseen Footage
• Dr. Jane Goodall Is Now Teaching an Online Course On…
Very Special Delivery
• Parrot Goes Viral after Placing Amazon Order
• Woman Couldn’t Explain Mysterious Amazon Orders until Her Parrot Talked
• Madonna Can’t Convince FedEx She Is Really Madonna
• UPS Denies Delivering Package That Trapped Man in Home
• UPS Driver Accidentally Traps Customer in Flat with Terrible Parcel Placemen…
38,690-Day-Old Fruitcake
• Shopping Cart Alignment Chart
• Bread Storage Alignment Chart
• The Bottom Plate
• Should You Eat a 106-Year-Old Fruitcake?
• 35-Year-Old Can Of Corn Donated To Food Bank, Which Naturally Decides To Open It
• The Hamburger on Display in a Canadian Legislature
• Seattle Mariners Fans Are Going Crazy for these Crunchy Grass…
Prototype Tablet App
• Trigonometry Discovered on a 3700-Year-Old Ancient Babylonian Tablet
• This Mysterious Ancient Tablet Could Teach Us a Thing or Two about Math
• Archeologists Decipher Ancient Babylonian Trigonometry Tablet
• Mathematical Secrets of Ancient Tablet Unlocked after Nearly a Century of Study
• Ancient Babylonian Tablet Ma…
On the Road
• What Happens If You Turn off the Traffic Lights?
• The Geographical Challenges of Building a Continuous Drivable Road around the Earth
• Estimated Insect Deaths Due to Collisions with Motor Vehicles
• To Guard Against Climate Change, Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets White
• Drinking and Drive-Overs
• Is It Better to Back in…
Playa Ukulele, Anyone?
• Emergency Playa Ukuleles
• Bonkers Human Centipede Race Against a Bull Looks Ridiculously High Risk
• Hide-And-Seek World Championship
• Hobby Horsing Around
• Want a Fun Party Game? Now ‘That’s a Question!’
• 27 Adorably Strange Birthday Party Themes Kids Have Chosen
• The Lost Origins of …
War Stories
• ‘I May Have to Disobey My Government’: Lessons from ‘Japan’s Schindler’
• During WW II Two Americans Escaped the Japanese by Sailing 3,000 Miles in a Wooden Fishing Boat
• The Location of Internment Camps Had Profound, Long-Lasting Effects on Japanese-Americans Assigned to Them
• Macarthur’s Japan — This Br…
Poo Corner
• How Poop Makes the World Go ‘Round
• Scientists Explain Why Coffee Makes You Poop
• The Secret Life of Burning Man’s 1,700 Porta Potties
• First Date Involves Human Poo and Firefighters
• Woman on Tinder Date Gets Stuck in Window Trying to Retrieve Her Own Poop
• Woman Rescued by Fire Bri…
2296 Toes, 486 Lives
• What Actually Happens When You Shoot a Bullet into a Hurricane
• Behind-the-Scenes Pics Show How Disney World Prepared for Hurricane Irma
• Hemingway’s 54 Six-Toed Cats Survive Hurricane Irma Inside the Museum
• Hemingway Museum and Six-Toed Cats Ride out Irma Unscathed…
Drs. Doolittle Do a Lot
• “Birdman of Gujarat” Has Been Feeding around 3,000 Birds Every Day, for 17 Years
• Chinese “Guardian of Dogs” Has Rescued over 700 Strays in the Last 8 Years
• When Disaster Strikes, the Zoo Must Go On
• The Lesser-Known Side Effects of Natural Disasters
• What Happens to Wild Animals in a Hurricane…
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…