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Did you know that beloved Walt Disney character Donald Duck was “born” 75 years ago today? It’s true, apparently, and what better way to celebrate that truly unique quack than with a compilation of aborted, unsuccessful and ill-conceived alternates? For a 75 year-old you look great, Donald, much better than these 12 Creepy Versions of [...]

The New York Times’s science section is having a Charles Darwin bonanza today to do with the publishing of his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, roughly 150 years ago (which would make this its sesquicentennial). So in honor of Darwin and all things Darwinian, Listicles will be looking at the evolution of [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]

On this lovely sunny morning we learned that the U.S.A. has reached a 7.2% unemployment rate, a 16-year high. Though our souls immediately turned to despair and we sank our sorrows into an Irish coffee and a playlist of movies about economic hardship, we slowly realized that unemployment is one of the most vital trials [...]