Author: staff
20 myths about sex [video]
Posted by staff / July 9, 2014Time to celebrate, men with small feet! You’re in the clear thanks to this episode of the List Show from Mental_Floss.
Read More21 cars that scream “American!”
Posted by staff / July 8, 2014No matter how hard some people try, a Prius or similar model is never going to pop to mind when the phrase “iconic American car” is uttered.
What we do think of is flashy, powerful, innovative and — occasionally — utter failure, and the cars on this list from CNN fit the bill to a Model T.
Read More25 stars’ early appearances on Seinfeld [videos]
Posted by staff / July 5, 2014It’s hard to believe it’s been a quarter of a century since Seinfeld hit the airwaves, which is plenty of time for the stars to have risen for many actors who made early appearances on the show.
Read MoreThe table with a river running through it
Posted by staff / July 2, 2014Glass tables have their turn in the spotlight of trendy every so often, but these are as classic as the topography they represent.
Read More18 horrible things overheard in private school
Posted by staff / June 30, 2014If the internet has done anything for humanity, it has made being both awful and completely unknown very, very difficult. If the wrong person overhears your perfectly innocent tirade against the existence of puppies, your words will be forever preserved on some article somewhere, and you’ll never be president.
Read MorekGoal: Fitbit for your lady parts [video]
Posted by staff / June 30, 2014We can’t get enough feedback from our bods these days, whether it’s how well we sleep, what heart rate we reach during a workout or how many calories we’ve consumed in any given day, but up until now, the fitness of one particular area of the female anatomy has gone untracked.
Read MoreThe invasion of America: How the U.S. took over an eighth of the world [interactive map]
Posted by staff / June 30, 2014One of the political debates that flairs in the U.S. every few years is the “takeover” of the country by outsiders, yet the argument often understates the extent the United States took over the land originally.
Read More50 definitive pics of old school cool
Posted by staff / June 26, 2014Usually we’re a bit skeptical when people claim things were so much better back in the day, but these fifty pictures defining old school cool collected by Distractify’s Jake Heppner could very well convince us otherwise.
Read MoreThe real-time lightening strike map [interactive map]
Posted by staff / June 25, 2014Wondering if a nasty bout of lightening is headed your way or already under a cloud and feeling all alone in the world?
Thanks to Germany-based Blitzortung.org and their international network of volunteers, you can see exactly where the action is in real time, and even get involved in the project if you’re so inspired.
Read MoreEngland & the World Cup [interactive infographic]
Posted by staff / June 25, 2014This hasn’t been the best year for jolly old England in the World Cup, so the time couldn’t be better to focus on its past glories with this interactive infographic from DesignBySoap.
Read MoreIf you react easily to emotional cues, your brain is ‘highly tuned’
Posted by staff / June 25, 2014How your brain responds to happy and sad faces could be an indicator of how innately emphatic you are, researchers say. Previous studies have suggested that sensory processing sensitivity is an innate trait associated with greater sensitivity, or responsiveness, to environmental and social stimuli. “This is physical evidence within the brain that highly sensitive individuals …
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