Life’s Little Supreme Ironies

[What follows is a list of ironic events or things. Although I feel I’ve only scratched the surface, it was difficult to come up with even ten. Anyone else know any legitimate ironies?] A pet bird dying in a plane crash. Being beaten to death by a pacifists’ bodyguards. A financial planner who takes a […]

Fun Facts About Language, Speech and Hearing

Singer Tim Storms produced a sound so low that human ears could not detect it. He also owns a dog that is so fast, human eyes have never seen it. Yodeling is not only the rapid and repeated transition from low to high pitched tones, it is also considered the fastest way to get a […]

Greatest Advances in Medicine

Trepanning: When a caveman got hurt, they were pretty ineffectual… yelling, “Do something! Anything!”. And, trepanning definitely counts as “anything”. Trepanning is the act of boring into the skull, which most people needed like a hole in the head. What’s most surprising is not that early man bored holes in the cranium to treat conditions […]

The Harbinger of Spring

When you see a robin, you know that spring is on its way… just like when you see your grandmother grabbing her car keys, you know that a big car accident is about to happen. There are other ways of determining if spring is near: Use a calendar, ask a friend… I hear the internet […]

Lessons Learned From Fighting the Borg

I know now that the kids who used drugs were not cool… just cooler than the ones who didn’t… Treating other people with the same respect I would want for myself turned out to be a great way to trick idiots into doing what I wanted. Someone once told me, “Do what you love and […]