Another Side of Bob Dylan
“Hidden messages” are typically the sort of thing that rock musicians hide in their songs, and studious individuals track down. This time, the opposite is true.
Author: Uncle John
4 Football Teams That Almost Made the NFL
Players try out for the NFL every season. Every so often, entire teams try to join the league, and, for a variety of reasons, just don’t make the cut.
Fake It Until You Make It
Backpacking through foreign lands has long been a right-of-passage for graduates. But instead of doing that, a Dutch student pretended like she did…to see if anyone could tell.
Let’s Get Wild (With Some Wild Rice Facts)
How wild are these facts about wild rice? Pretty wild! Okay, they’re not that wild, but they are pretty interesting.
Ask Uncle John Anything: Eye See Your Boogers
That gross yellow junk has a lot of different names: “crusties,” or “eye boogers,” or “sleep sand,” or “sleep gunk,” or…Rheum is a term that refers to any and all materials expelled from the facial cavities—nose, mouth, and eyes—during sleep.
No More Saturday Morning Cartoons
Pour out a box of sugar cereal to honor the death of an American institution.
The TV landscape is certainly changing. There are hardly any soap operas left, most any program can be seen outside of its timeslot online the next day, and cheap devices allow us to store our favorite shows and skip the commercials. But while the majority of viewers do still watch, say, late night TV shows late at night, there’s one TV institution that’s gone for good: Saturday morning cartoons on network TV.
Ig Nobel Awards: Better Living Through Poopy Science
Since 1991, the Ig Nobel Awards honor the world’s most ridiculous research and scientific undertakings. Two out of ten of this year’s honorees regarded, well, fecal matters.
3 Obscure Spinoffs Of Popular TV Shows
A successful show does not necessarily mean a successful offshoot. Here are three examples of TV show spinoffs that never took off.
Fake-or-Fact Friday: Hawaiian Football Edition
Every Friday we give you three stories and ask you to pick which two are true and which one we made up. Can you guess which item about the University of Hawaii’s football team isn’t real? (The answer is at the end of the post.)
A Virtual Vacation
In Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger took a virtual trip to Mars that nearly destroyed his brain. Now you can do the same, through Marriott’s virtual vacation.
7 MLB Postseason Fun Facts
These facts could…go…all…the…WAY! We dug deep for some great historical MLB postseason facts.
ROBOTICA Invasion: No Bones About It
Researchers at Tokyo University’s JSK Lab have been working on a robot that aims to do just one thing: recreate in robot form the human musculoskeletal system. (Which seems like way more than one thing.)
Scandal at Ben & Jerry’s!
In February, Ben & Jerry introduced a line of “core” ice creams, in which a pillar of fudge, chocolate, or jam runs through the middle of a carton of frozen dessert. The “Hazed & Confused” variety combined hazelnut (the “haze”) and chocolate ice creams with a core of Nutella-like fudge.
5 Bands Whose Members Were Romantically Involved
It’s said that musicians play music to, uh, attract others. These musicians didn’t have to go very far.
A Few Festive Oktoberfest Factoids
It’s everybody’s beer-soaked holiday! (Next to Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick’s Day.) Here are some Oktoberfest facts to share after clinking your beer steins.
Ask Uncle John Anything: It’s in the Bag
What causes bags under the eyes? There are a lot of reasons why your eyes might look puffy in the morning. You might not have gotten enough sleep. Your eyes are tired.
Fake-or-Fact Friday: Dogs Behaving Badly
Every Friday we give you three news stories and ask you to pick which two are true and which one we made up. Can you guess which ones are true and which one is the fake? (The answer is at the end of the post.)
The Worst Fall Lineup in TV History
The new TV season begins this week, and the networks will roll out a few dozen new shows. A lot of them will be cancelled, but it still won’t be a programming bloodbath like NBC’s fall 1983 slate of new comedies and dramas.
