Weird & Strange

There are plenty of stupid ways to kick the bucket, but you have to hand it to anyone who gets outsmarted by a wild animal…

Ever had a self-appointed linguistic expert regale you with word origin stories that seemed a bit off? The following etymologies have spread well beyond

When you get to be a big enough celebrity, you’re often asked to endorse things. Sometimes they make sense, like when Michael Jordan tries to sell you overpriced sneakers, or Paris Hilton makes a commercial for herpes. Wait, no, sorry, she actually endorsed cheeseburgers. Serves us right to make assumptions without paying attention to what the ad was selling. Anyway, some celebrity endorsements, l

A wedding is a very special event in a person’s life. It’s an important moment that, at least in theory, is only going to happen once, so those involved

People all over the world have different tastes in all sorts of things. Music, movies, television, politics, and so forth. And in some cases, it’s their actual tastes that vary wildly, and going from country to country all over the globe, you’re bound to come across some of the most truly bizarre foods you can possibly imagine. And then you take some of those weird foods and combine then with some

In high school, I was a Cobra. That was embarrassing. In college I was a Mariner. That was boring. Then I became a teacher at a school that bore uniforms

Robots were first created in order to help mankind. They were made to lessen loads, and make life easier for humanity. Industrial robots such...

Architecture is a difficult profession, and we don’t think for a second we’d be able to just jump right in and do it ourselves. It requires skill, precision, and a whole lot more math than we’ve ever used, and about the closest we’ve ever come is building a few pillow forts. But everyone makes mistakes now and then, and that includes architects and engineers, and the results, quite predictably, ar

No childhood is complete without a toy that could potentially kill those who wield it. Why, part of growing up is learning that Lego bricks are both sharp and

Dr. Joseph Mengele was a German physician and a SS Officer in a Nazi concentration camp. He had two doctorate degrees, one from Munich University in