If an internet stranger tells you that a comment is worth reading, how much do you trust them? According to a new study published in Science, the answer is probably more than you think. The study’s authors were interested in how other people influence each other over social media, particularly … Read More
Sometimes you’d like to put your feet up and relax. Other times you’re working. Why can’t you do both? Because you totally can! This is the foot hammock ($30). You install it under your desk, and bam! Put your feet up while you’re working. Or pretending to work while you … Read More
The Women Who Mapped the Universe And Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect – Smithsonian “So began an era in Harvard Observatory history where women—more than 80 during Pickering’s tenure, from 1877 to his death in 1919— worked for the director, computing and cataloging data. Some of these women would produce … Read More
The Cigar, Simply – Gear Patrol “I read that Bismark calmed an angry crowd in Paris by producing a cigar and asking a Frenchman for a light. Mark Twain enjoyed smoking the most noxious cigars he could find out on his front porch. Churchill dipped his in cognac and smoked … Read More
Aisha Taylor recently found time to do an AMA on Reddit, which is amazing, because when she’s not providing the voice of Lana Kane on Archer, she’s promoting her book and getting ready to host the new incarnation of Whose Line is it Anyway, set to return to TV on … Read More
