January 3, 2014 0 The Decoy Effect You’re making dinner plans with a group of friends. The group is divided between two choices of similar [...]
January 2, 2014 0 Pesto Chango In the 1990s, ESPN developed the X Games, an Olympics-like competition around so-called “extreme [...]
December 27, 2013 0 The Heavenly Bean In the 15th century, a group of people in Yemen first cultivated coffee beans and brewed a [...]
December 26, 2013 0 Pledging Allegiance Francis Bellamy died on August 28, 1931. His name has mostly been lost to history. Despite this, most [...]
December 24, 2013 0 A Festivus for the Peruvians During the ninth season of Seinfeld, George goes to his parents’ house around Christmastime [...]
December 23, 2013 0 Jingle All the Way “Jingle Bells” has been staple song of the holiday season in the United States for decades [...]
December 20, 2013 0 The Queen of Suite 212 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was assassinated on October 9, 1934. His son, Peter, was only 11 at the time, [...]
December 19, 2013 0 The Prime Minister of Death There’s Kathleen Vernon of Albany County, Wyoming. Then there’s Jim Faulk — [...]
December 18, 2013 0 Bankers’ Hours If you’re working a desk job with typical hours, work comes to a halt around noon each day as [...]
December 17, 2013 0 Mister Plow In 1992, a man named Marvin Heemeyer purchased two acres of land in Granby, Colorado, about a two hour drive [...]