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The Statue of Liberty, a French gift to the U.S.A. on the occasion of the Declaration of Independence’s centennial, was dedicated on October 28 1886, which makes Lady Liberty exactly 123 years old today. As a celebration of all that that huge hunk of metal has come to symbolize over the years, we’re looking at [...]

Today, in addition to being Canada Day, is Build a Scarecrow Day, which strikes us as rather region-specific national holiday, but there you go. Of course, now that we’re thinking about it, just because they’re called scarecrows doesn’t mean they can only be used to scare crows. To prove our point, we’ve rounded up these [...]

In preparation for this week’s edition of our psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, we’ve been reading up on this fascinating new research whereby doctors and scientists have been able to track the brain chemistry of coupling mammals. After all, what could be more Freudian than libido-liberating animal sex? More interestingly though, the research could eventually lead to [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]