The Place to Take a Humor Break
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A newly-released study is lending stature to a group of artists long dismissed as either inscrutable or merely annoying: mimes, who according to a white paper funded by the International Brother-and-Sisterhood of Mimes, […]
Wondering if the busybodies at the TSA will let you bring bottle rockets on board an airplane? Concerned that your “support” Komodo dragon won’t fit in the overhead compartment? Ask Your Travel-Packing Advisor, he knows […]
A Russian bomb squad was summoned to defuse a ticking package. It contained a vibrator that had been turned on by accident. The Telegraph Ready to roll! Another day, another round of potentially deadly […]
Isadore Singer, one of the most important mathematicians of his era, took correspondence courses to learn the prerequisites for relativity and quantum mechanics. Obituary, The New York Times “Boys, today we’re going to make a […]
Pets are both our friends and members of our families, so when something is wrong in the doghouse or litterbox, we want to make it right. Here are some of the more interesting problems that […]
MARIETTA, Georgia. Hiram Walker College here is known as something of an academic backwater, and so the announcement that Professor Ted Gomes had won a prestigious McNiece Fellowship was cause for celebration. “It’s not a […]
Like most addicts, I can remember my first time–over fifty years ago–as if it were yesterday. I was working the grill at a snack bar at the University of Chicago when a guy named Manny–who […]
Thousands lined the avenues of Paris to protest reforms designed to energize the French economy by opening up regulated professions with high barriers to entry. “Don’t touch my notary!” read one banner. The Wall Street […]
An orange tabby cat beat professionals in a stock-picking competition. He made his selections by throwing his favorite toy mouse on a grid of numbers allocated to different companies. […]
WATERTOWN, Mass. Brick-and-mortar bookstores, long predicted to be on their deathbeds due to the growing market power of on-line sellers, are on life support these days due to an unexpected shot-in-the-arm from an unlikely vaccine: […]