How Your Dad’s Jams Indicate What Tunes Are On Your iPod
There’s no doubt that what your parents listened to when you were growing up has had some sort of an impact on what you listen to now, though I’m not totally sure it’s always as clear-cut as this...
View ArticleWhat Was the Nerdiest Moment of Your Life?
On Fridays, I post a series of unrelated questions meant to spark conversation in the comments. Answer one, answer all, respond to someone else’s reply, whatever you want. On to this week’s topics of...
View ArticleWhat Class Have You Found Most Useful in Your Adult Life?
On Fridays, I post a series of unrelated questions meant to spark conversation in the comments. Answer one, answer all, respond to someone else’s reply, whatever you want. On to this week’s topics of...
View ArticleBuilding a World
Afniel has an intriguing but simple method of drawing fantasy maps starting with absolutely nothing. She presents it as a way to get children interested in cartography, because the results look quite...
View ArticleDon’t Do Drugs, Kids
This is allegedly an ad for an anti-littering campaign in Belfast, UK. But it would work pretty well for anti-drug campaign as well. Or a commercial for adult undergarments. Link -via The Uniblog
View ArticleFairy Wasps are Smaller than Amoebas
People who make toys, dollhouses, or other miniatures know that certain laws of physics apply that make miniaturization difficult. Certain laws of biology apply, too, but the fairy wasp seems to do an...
View ArticleThe Adult Swim Art Gallery Showing
If you’re a fan of Tim & Eric, Aqua Team Hunger Force, The Venture Bros, or any of the other wonderful shows on Adult Swim and happen to be in the LA area before February 4, then be sure to stop...
View ArticleSeal Pups Rescued From The Storms of England
When big storms hit the coast, adult seals can swim through the rough seas, but little guys often end up abandoned on the beach. Fortunately, the RSPCA is there to help treat them and care for them...
View ArticleEmerging Adults
At what age do you become an "adult"? 18? 21? A new survey by Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, revealed that there may be gradations of adulthood. Witness the advent of "emerging adults"...
View ArticleWhy Do Moths Eat Clothes?
They don’t, technically. It’s actually their larvae, or caterpillars, that eat clothes, not the adult moths. It’s only a relatively small group of moths, the family Tineidae, that have any interest in...
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