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At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]

Yesterday was National Pretzel Day, and while we scoured New York City from one pretzel cart to the next, we wondered what kinds of pretzels we might find if we hit the road. Shortly thereafter we overdosed on pretzels and spent the following six hours lying on a bench in a daze while our stomachs [...]

According to an unverified source, today is the anniversary of the first public library opening. Dating this aniversary is all the more problematic because if you go back far enough, people’s definitions of “public library” start to differ significantly . For instance, did the dry sections of Roman baths where there were scrolls available for [...]