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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 [...]

The whole idea of a president needing a vacation sounds, to be honest, more than a little wimpy. After all, you’re the leader of the free world, and the free world never takes a break. If “vacation” was code for “diplomatic trip abroad,” we might understand, but every president seems to make a point of [...]

Today, for some unfathomable reason, is the day when going down to the woods is sure to give you a big surprise. We’re told there’s lots of wonderful things to eat (humans, presumably) and wonderful games to play. Beneath the trees, where nobody sees, they play hide and seek as long as they please, because [...]

205 years ago today, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark struck out from their training sessions at Camp Dubois, Illinois Territory, on their epic journey with their rag-tag group the Corps of Discovery (which, in case you think the same way we do, is already a band’s name). The epic, madcap journey that would go down [...]

Today is Rubber Eraser Day, because on April 15, 1770, Joseph Priestly first discovered that scratching paper with rubber would remove any pencil marks from said paper. Little did Priestly know that his invention would not only enable the correcting and improving of all manner of written and drawn art, but would in fact become [...]

In our ongoing effort to deconstruct and reassemble the conventions of what we do and don’t consider listicles, we offer you this image of 9 Teddy Bears Riding in Wagons. Does it matter that it’s not a traditional list, or – as Marcel Duchamp would have said – does the simple fact of placing this [...]