Pigeons Have Copied Our Brains
In a summer of my misspent youth long past I worked as an intern in Washington, D.C. and would frequently walk past the White House on my lunch hour. There I would encounter, as you […]
In a summer of my misspent youth long past I worked as an intern in Washington, D.C. and would frequently walk past the White House on my lunch hour. There I would encounter, as you […]
KEOKUK, Iowa. This town of 10,780 in southeast Iowa proclaimed itself the “Starch Capital of America” in 1991 after a Parade Magazine survey found that residents depended on starchy foods such as potatoes, bread and […]
A star high school quarterback was persuaded to play football at Rice University by a handwritten letter its offensive coordinator wrote to his cat. Sports Illustrated “With these feet, I’m gonna need high-tops, like Johnny Unitas.” […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. Frustrated by the Supreme Court’s rightward drift, Associate Justice Stephen Gerald Breyer announced today that he will step down next year in order to pursue his interest in air guitar. Breyer: “I didn’t […]
Swallowed by a sinkhole. Washed away by a mudflow. Drowned after falling through thin ice. These are the fates that many unlucky mammoths suffered thousands of years ago. Now, after performing a genetic analysis on […]
When I saw the news I gulped involuntarily; a man riding a bike had been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver not far from where I make the turn to head home from my Sunday morning […]
BOSTON. It’s 6:30 a.m., but Katie Umlau is already forty-five minutes into a Friday morning workout she says she “desperately needs to get ready for this weekend.” “I am NOT eating your mother’s stupid pineapple […]
OTTAWA, Canada. Stunned by the Montreal Canadians’ five-game loss in the Stanley Cup finals, Canadian officials today devalued the nation’s currency against those of other hockey-playing countries, a move they hope will help reverse its […]
It was a steamy Washington summer exactly four decades ago. I was working for the federal government at a scandal-plagued agency alongside a veteran bureaucrat named Fred. Fred wasn’t going any higher on the org […]
SKOKIE, Illinois. Madeline Grebs is a long-time records manager at Modern Moosehead Indemnity, an insurance company in this suburb of Chicago, but she’s not the quiet, retiring type. “Don’t call me a file clerk” she […]