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The Girl Who Turned to Bone – The Atlantic The search for a cure to a rare skeletal condition, and why curing rare diseases matters. For Stock Picking Advice, Don’t Ask an Economist – The New York Times Based on everything we know about stocks, it seems like insider trading … Read More
If we have a choice between grilling or smoking our ribs over wood, charcoal, or gas, we pick wood every time. For the record, charcoal comes second. The trouble with wood, though, is it’s difficult to maintain a consistent temperature. Using pellets solves a lot of that problem, hence the … Read More
Kurt Vonnegut may have said that using semicolons merely shows is that you went to college (he also called them “transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing”; fun guy, that Vonnegut), but we think they’re useful. Primarily, they’re useful for combining two independent but highly related clauses. Here’s the Oatmeal with more. … Read More
Swimming is a great workout—it uses most of your muscles and burns plenty of calories—but if there’s one thing we dislike about it (aside from kids in the pool—there, two things), it’s that we can’t listen to music while we’re at it. That’s why we tolerate all the peacocking jerks … Read More
What if there was an internet video—stay with us now—that didn’t require a pratfall, a meme, a celebrity doing something that would be considered merely annoying coming from anyone else, a bunch of pop culture references masquerading as jokes, or pointless nostalgia? Don’t believe us? Well, here’s a simple, funny, … Read More
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