ROBOTICA Invasion: Cruising With the Booze Bots
This November, the maiden voyage of the Quantum of the Seas will revolutionize the way that vacationers journey across the oceans. The ship features a sleek lounge with robotic bartenders.
Weird, Wonderful World
3 Ways to Hack Your Coffee
As the temperatures start dropping and the stresses of the season start to rise, you’re going to need all the energy you can get. When the line at Starbucks is too long and a cup of Folgers just isn’t going to do the trick, keep these handy-dandy coffee hacks at the ready.
Ask Uncle John Anything: The Greatest Thing Since the Greatest Thing
Before the invention of sliced bread, what did people say was “the best thing ever”? Sliced bread has been around since bread, of course, but pre-sliced bread wasn’t sold commercially in the United States until 1928. What took people so long to figure out how to slice bread?
How Tuberculosis Invented the Ice Cream Cone
The other day we told you about the many variations on ice cream. Today, we follow it up with a cringe-worthy ice cream related story.
3 Unusual Online Schools
College is a drag, what with the high tuition, lack of a job after graduation, and the roommates who are really into jam bands. Why go through all that when you can go to school over the Internet?
No MOOP…And Other Burning Man Basics
On August 25th, the Burning Man Festival will kick off for the 29th time in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. If you’re not familiar with this annual event, here’s your cheat-sheet.
7 Delicious and Nutritious Cereal Facts To Start Your Day
Uncle John’s Blog is part of a balanced breakfast. Here are some interesting cereal facts about your favorite breakfast food you may not have known.
We Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For…Frozen Custard?
The many, and often subtle, differences between all those frozen desserts you’ve been eating all summer long.
The World’s Most Boring Museums?
Sure, you could go to the Kids Hands-On Science Museum, or History of Fireworks and Free Cookies Museum…or you could hit one of these, which we’re sure are very, very fun and interesting.
The Crazy Oreo and Kit-Kat Varieties Quiz
In the last couple of years, Nabisco has aggressively introduced more, and more crazy, flavors of the popular sandwich cookie. Over in Japan, the Kit Kat candy bar is extremely popular and similarly is available in dozens of seemingly bizarre flavors. Can you guess which of the following are weird Oreo flavors and which are weird Kit Kat flavors?
Life Down at The Penguin Post Office
A trip to the post office is usually boring at best, and aggravating at worst, if there’s a long line. Things are different at the Penguin Post Office.
The 4 Boldest Celebrity Roasts
No Dean Martin making jokes about Sammy Davis Jr., being short here—just famous people who loved coffee so much they started their own coffee companies.
Scandalous Peaches!
In the U.S., we use Valentine’s Day as a way to give that special someone erotically charged gifts and edible aphrodisiacs. In China, they have the Qixi Festival. It fell on August 2 this year, and the hottest (in many senses of the word) gift this year were peaches.
Ask Uncle John Anything: It’s Not Rocket Science
Before the dawn of space travel, what did people say to imply that something wasn’t that difficult to do or understand?
The World’s 3 Newest and Weirdest Amusement Parks
We’re going to Diggerland! Here are three of the newest and most unusual amusement parks in the world.
A Short History of the Elephant Ear
This fried treat can be found in about every carnival, fair, and rodeo you’ll hit this summer. But who first came up with this summertime favorite of many names? Canadians.
Japan’s Poop-tacular New Museum Exhibit
With their dusty dinosaur bones and yawn-inducing artwork, museums often bore the heck out of kids. That probably won’t be the case with the wild, and stinky, exhibit currently running at Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Welcome to the poop museum exhibit!
The World’s Most Terrifying Motel?
A wise man once said that there’s nothing scarier than a clown after midnight. That same man would have absolutely hated the Clown Motel.
