As the decade comes to a close and we start seeing an explosion of listicles about the last ten years, we here at Listicles labs are predicting an overwhelmingly sad, scary and disappointing summary of the aughts. We imagine that this will be an especially inescapable verdict for all things environmental, as we’ve done a [...]

We don’t always feel so optimistic on a Monday morning, but the bouncy stance and smile of this kid posing with his 7 Children’s Prosthetic Legs has us feeling in a pretty positive light about everything. If he can be happy despite the obvious difficulties his life poses, who are we not to smile?

True story: one of our best friends’ mothers growing up was one of Canada’s leading quilters. She would travel around the world (though never into space) attending quilting conferences and the like. She used the family’s garage as her workshop, and had the largest Canadian flag in the world stored there in several boxes. Why [...]

We rarely go beyond our Internet bubble to consider lists in non-electronic media, but Creative Review Blog recently alerted us to a helpful new book that we just couldn’t pass up: David O’Doherty, Claudia O’Doherty and Mike Ahern’s pseudo-scientific nature book parody 100 Facts About Pandas. Readers will learn all sorts of fascinating untrue non-facts [...]

Between our current event filmmakers‘ obsession with disaster movies, and all-pervading fears of impending environmental doom, it’s not surprising that movies about environmental apocalypse are becoming more common. That’s part of why we’re surprised that TreeHugger left recent entries like The Simpsons Movie (and another included after the jump) our of their listicle of The [...]

Recently, as part of a series on the American dental industry, Slate looked at some of the most famous dentist characters throughout movie history. Evidently, Marathon Man and Little Shop of Horrors had to be included in the ensuing listicle of 11 Movie Dentists, but we were surprised to see some of our favorite oral [...]

Anytime we can find a convenient shorthand or graphic representation for the pioneering work of scientist Charles Darwin we seize upon it, and if we were more into getting tattoos than we are into looking at them, we might even get one of the cool ink jobs featured in Cakehead Loves Evil’s listicle of 9 [...]

Were we to ever name something after a celebrity (as opposed to someone more obvious and deserving, like ourselves), it would probably be a star (as in “Xeron 12 13 Philip Seymour Hoffman”) or color (like “Cameron Diaz Yellow”) or something less grandiose (maybe “Ol’ Dirty Bastard Lane”). One thing’s for sure, we would never [...]

Suburban design has clearly reached its sad and tragic end, but finding a way to make something out of the mess it’s left behind all over North America and the world is a massive and intimidating project. It seems as though for every suburb there’s an environmentally-sensitive plan for how things could be better. Well, [...]

We remember being really disappointed upon learning that astronauts who were in orbit for a long time had to work out or face a massive re-education process to strengthen their muscles upon returning to Earth’s gravitational surface. Running on a treadmill in a space shuttle seems like a such a dull way to stay fit, [...]