July 2010
89 posts
After a poor showing at the World Cup, the North Korean soccer team didn’t...
– The most important news and commentary to read right now. - The Slatest - Slate Magazine
There have been stories about you sneaking up behind people in New York City,...
– Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ
Got to love that man.
I was on my back on a marble floor late at night in Venice a couple of years...
– Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ
America may be the land of the free, but getting into the country by land will...
– Welcome To Americaland - TIME
Daydreaming was long held in disrepute in society and was associated with...
– Daydream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exploding head syndrome is a condition that causes the sufferer occasionally to...
– Exploding head syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Moon moves trillions of gallons of water every day in our ocean...
– Voodoo on the Vine - Page 3 - Dining - San Francisco - SF Weekly
Bunk. Pure bunk.
A born-again virgin is an individual who has previously engaged in sexual...
– Born-again virgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dutch courage or liquid courage refers to courage gained from intoxication by...
– Dutch courage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A microsleep is an episode of sleep which may last for a fraction of a second or...
– Microsleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In June 2005 scientists at the University of Pittsburgh’s Safar Center for...
– Suspended animation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A peculiarity that birds share with aquatic mammals, and possibly also with...
– Sleep (non-human) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One method of killing was to blind a single bird by sewing its eyes shut using a...
– Passenger Pigeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In popular culture, when the obsolete makes an unexpected re-appearance, it...
– Why Don’t We Take The Russian Spies Seriously? | The New Republic
The contest to kill 100 people using a sword (百人斬り競争 hyakunin-giri kyōsō?) was a...
– Contest to kill 100 people using a sword - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unibrows have been the subject of various misconceptions and superstitions....
– Unibrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selenium has been strongly linked, at least in folklore, with madness. The...
– Blogging the Periodic Table: Selenium. (4) - By Sam Kean - Slate Magazine
Latin for “pleasant place”, locus amoenus is a literary term which...
– Locus amoenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 2006 - an Indian woman from Bhubaneswar, Orissa, allegedly “fell in...
– Human-animal marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spend a little time with Greene and you realize there’s something more...
– What Makes Alvin Greene Run? - Newsweek