April 17, 2018 0 When the NBA Doubled Its Money As pro basketball players go, Eric Money is as forgettable as they come. Here’s the entirety of his [...]
April 16, 2018 0 The Gross, Metallic Secret Behind America’s Westward Expansion In 1804, a pair of American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, led an expedition from Illinois to [...]
April 13, 2018 0 The Weekender, April 13, 2018 1) “Friday the 13th isn’t unlucky. It’s a meme disguised as superstition” (Vox, 7 minutes, [...]
April 11, 2018 0 Why You Should Whistle While You Work For most of us, idly whistling while at work isn’t such a great idea. Not only does it potentially distract [...]
April 10, 2018 0 The Elevator Light That’s a Total Gas International travel can be perilous, especially when you don’t speak the language native to your host [...]
April 9, 2018 0 A Traffic Jam That’s For the Birds If you’re driving around Austria coming south on your way up to Vienna, you’re likely on a roadway called [...]
April 6, 2018 0 The Weekender, April 6, 2018 1) “The Real Story of the Hawaiian Missile Crisis” (GQ, 28 minutes, April 2018). Earlier this [...]
April 5, 2018 0 A Sinister Hamburger In 2002, Burger King introduced a new menu option: the veggie burger. The meat-free hamburger-like sandwich [...]
April 4, 2018 0 The Man of Many Thank Yous Let’s start today by taking a look at screenshots of three hardly-iconic scenes from three pretty [...]
April 3, 2018 0 How Overdue Parking Tickets Took Over an Innocent Person’s Life In 2008, a Chicago-area man named Brandon Preveau bought a 1999 Chevy Monte Carlo — like the one [...]