Besides a love of hockey, there are perhaps 2 chief stereotypes about Canadians: That they say “eh” a lot, and that they are extremely polite. As it turns out, they could be cut from the same cloth.
August 2, 2019
If you don’t feel think shower knobs should be standardized, perhaps you haven’t met Gabriella Paiella’s nemesis.
July 26, 2019
“It was like seeing the Mona Lisa for the first time at the Louvre,” gushed Lincoln Boehm, the Californian who found on a Queens sidewalk perhaps the only culinary delicacy not available to New Yorkers: an In-N-Out burger. The cult favorite find set off a viral firestorm of…
July 12, 2019
If you’ve never seen a research citation set to the music of Cyndi Lauper, here’s your chance.
July 5, 2019
The latest rage in augmented reality: Fake eye contact is on the way. Or, as Apple is calling it, “FaceTime Attention Correction.” It digitally fixes the position of your pupils, so it looks like you’re gazing straight at the person you’re talking to. It aims to fix a…
June 28, 2019
If you see a carrot on the menu at Arby’s fast food restaurants, be warned: That is not the vegetarian option. While its rivals embrace meatless burgers, the roast beef sandwich specialist has bucked the trend, defiantly beefing up its marketing campaign by inventing a…
June 21, 2019
It may have taken humans millennia to evolve into an upright position—but a new study suggests we may be on our way back down. Or maybe not? A study (from 2018) making headlines this week suggested that spending inordinate amounts of time tilting their heads phone-ward is…
June 7, 2019
“Binge-watch” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary a year ago, lending further credence to what might be obvious: This is the era of TV streaming.
May 31, 2019
Think about it: You're a New York City subway conductor and a passenger approaches with a large woolly dog hoisted up in a burlap sack—does it count as a legitimate pet bag? These are the tough calls subway staffers make on a daily basis, as the New York Times documents.
May 17, 2019
Welcome to The Fungus Olympics: Where the competitors are fungi, the stadium is a petri dish, and performance enhancing substances are encouraged. Fungal teams receive microscopic mazes by mail and subject their fungal athletes to tests judging their speed, agility, and “…