April 2012
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Scientists first noted a sharp rise in animal suicides in early 2012.
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He’d always thought you made your own luck, but now the luck had run out.
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Beneath the excitement of travel was a core of sadness, knowing this would...
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Dear Friends Reunited,
If I want to remember something from my past, I use my...
– Messageboard post, Tim S.
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I have never felt like a good person, but I think that, thanks to my father’s...
– Héctor Abad
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The only thing more unthinkable than not living forever is living forever.
Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of...
– Keith Sawyer, Washington University
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Forgotten Cinema
Poptaki, Otto Preminger (1961). Comedic thriller about a plot to kidnap the President (Gregory Peck). A presidential double (Peter Sellers) is enlisted to foil the plot, but looking nothing like the President, is easily identified as “the President’s double.” Despite this he is kidnapped, and later escapes. This little-seen film is today remembered primarily for its top-40 theme song C’est...
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people who refer to celebrities by their first names
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He stumbled into Portfolio Day late, hungover and unshaven, and proceeded to...
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Whatever happened to crying while eating?
– Messageboard post, Mr. Dinky
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Families: so at least somebody gives a shit.
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