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As we plan our Halloween costume for this year we’re starting to think that maybe instead of doing a whole outfit, we might just choose one accessory that instantly redefines the rest of our wardrobe, making whatever we’re wearing a costume. At first we thought that a sword might be the best way to achieve [...]

For a little while now we’ve been obsessed with GOOD Magazine’s insanely beautiful infographics, but frankly also a little too embarrassed to seek out others. Inspired Magazine seems to have read our minds (get out of our head!) and have rounded up 20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs. Our favorite is Information is Beautiful, [...]

Not all sports involve shooting one thing into another, but certainly most of the good ones do–sorry, pole-vaulting. Appropriately, every time someone makes an amazing shot (like the guy from Texas A&M, or Roger Federer) bloggers must compare this new feat to its forerunners, which is how we got Hail Mary Jane’s listicle of The [...]

Former Prime Minister of the U.K., Margaret Thatcher, turns 84 today, and though we by no means espouse her political stances on, well, just about anything, we can’t deny that she was instrumental in establishing the terms of modern politics in Europe and around the world. Of course, now that she’s a frail old British [...]

A very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that our brains are often at their most active, creative and effective when trying to process bad instructions, misinformation, or trying to find patterns when no signs are present. The accompanying image (pictured) shows a blank road sign on a desert road, which got us [...]

From acquiring some sort of chameleon-like ability to change colors and adopt patterns, to donning elaborate makeup and costumes in order to blend with our surroundings, to being straight up invisible, we’ve contemplated many ways to render ourselves imperceptible. Executing those plans, however, has proven difficult, and we’ve never done anything nearly as convincing as [...]

Though we recently regaled you with some of the most memorable newscaster bloopers, it seems unfair to single out media professionals’ pitfalls without highlighting some of the stresses they endure as well. For instance, Epic Carnival’s listicle of the 20 Strangest Moments in Newscasting History features some awesomely unlikely accidents, like uncontrollable reptiles.

Obviously, trying to whittle the field of outstanding Jewish comedians down to a choice twenty will invariably yield some problems, exaggerations and blind spots, and we’re mostly happy with how mental_floss handled the not inconsiderable task. That said, we really don’t like Seth Rogen and don’t understand why he made their list of the Top [...]

Of all the world’s massive and mysterious monuments, the easiest to copy (save perhaps the pyramids) must be Stonhenge – provided you ignore the problem of how its multiple-ton blocks were lifted into place before modern machinery. Regardless, recent replicas abound. Inexplicably, the great Pi Stonehenge (also known as Stonehenge 3.141…) was left out of [...]

It’s easy to forget, in these days of handheld devices and interactive, hyper-dynamic web design, that websites were pretty much hideously ugly 10 years ago. Or maybe our aesthetic standards have changed and they actually seemed acceptable at the time. Either way, perusing the Telegraph’s listicle of How 20 Popular Sites Looked When They Launched [...]