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Remember astronaut food? You know, those weird dried-out vacuum-packed foods they sell at science museums that are supposedly like the stuff astronauts in orbit have to eat? We always suspected these were actually designed as an early tactic for weeding out children with space travel aspirations who clearly weren’t up to the challenge. As in: [...]

It’s the season (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) for drinking under birches, drinking at beaches, drinking on benches, drinking on bleachers, drinking on roofs one has gained access to semi-legally and drinking on stoops of buildings one has never been into. With all the running around we tend to forget bottle-openers at least [...]

Credit cards have to be among the most useless things in the world. Aside from their symbolic financial function – which, for most of us, is no longer valid – and the deceptive comfort factor of having a nicely padded wallet, they’re just cheaply made rectangles of embossed plastic with magnetic strips and computer chips [...]