Tim Urban of Wait But Why recently completed an informal but thorough survey of 123 New Yorkers whose work involves being tipped, including…
Read more…waiters, bartenders, baristas, manicurists, barbers, busboys, bellmen, valets, doormen, cab drivers, restaurant delivery people, and even some…
The Guardian has taken several well-known album covers and placed their street-scene covers over the street view of the location where they were shot, giving a modern context to the classic images. Here are several…
Driving along a Bozeman highway recently, Austin Stonnell pulled to a stop to allow a few elk to cross the road…but it wasn’t just a few. They kept coming. Hundreds of them.
And then there was just one left. He…
Read moreThis half serious, half tongue-in-cheek handout from the Women’s Studies department of the University of Wisconsin circa 1988, which was recently re-found by a former student who was packing to move, reminds us that progress is a process (and a…
Read moreWe’ve all had things happen to us that we “wouldn’t wish on our worst enemy.” So then the question remains, what would we wish on our worst enemy?
Probably not anything too vile, right? We’re sane and civilized people, after…
Read moreAs you watch this man stroll through Tokyo, you know something is off, but you aren’t sure what. He seems to be walking pretty normally, while everyone around him is walking backwards.
This five-minute video shows excerpts from a full…
Read moreRhett and Link’s latest rap battle is an attempt to see who’s the best “textpert” — someone who’s proficient at texting and driving while simultaneously doing a number of other things…
Read moreWhether you’ve worked with chemicals professionally or only in your high school science lab, you know how dangerous some of them can be in the wrong hands. The chemists in this video demonstrate that even in the right hands, certain…
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