When we were in school (actually, technically we are still in school, though you would never guess it) we could write an essay at the drop of a deadline, but when it came time to actually study we were hopeless. So we started making little tunes and ditties out of the pertinent information so that [...]

It turned into a bit of an animal-themed day here at Listicles, huh? Well, there are worse things for all the posts on one day to be about (guns, for instance), and we have orchestrated a beautiful symmetry (so much art to listicles!) by opening with tiny animals and concluding with giant ones. To send [...]

Miniature animals are a strange fusion of their actual wild animal cousins, pets and stuffed animals. In essence, they are the most tame, adorable and un-animalistic animals that exist, which makes them completely and utterly irresistible. You might not feel quite so charmed reading over Weird Worm’s listicle of 10 Weird Miniature Versions of Animals, [...]

On this date in 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the (dwarf) planet Pluto, long believed the be the farthest planet in the Milky Way solar system before being formally demoted to the specially designed status of plutoid in 2006. Since then, the astronomical entity has become a very melancholic figure, a sentiment facilitated by Pluto’s [...]

The most sophisticated experiments that we have ever actually had the patience to carry through to their conclusions have been eating contests, whose value, we feel, is chronically undervalued in the scientific community. Maybe if we conducted physics experiments with domino-like arrangements of mouse traps people would read our scientific journal (100×100 Foods) more often. [...]

Since one of the great unifying experiences shared by a significant percentage of the human race in the 20th century is the doctor’s visit, it seems only fitting that there should be a bounteous plethora of interesting doctor characters out there in the worlds of fiction and reality. We’ve combined two recent listicles–mental_floss’s 8 Famous [...]

Yesterday was X-Ray Day, which few people know means anyone in the world can get unlimited free X-rays all day (that is a lie, sadly, nobody celebrates X-Ray Day). The X-ray was first discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on November 8, 1895, though he likely never suspected the comic and bizarre applications his invention might [...]

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 [...]