Were warnings about calculators, cursive, GPS, and lost skills actually right? A funny look at what technology replaced—and what still matters.
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Were warnings about calculators, cursive, GPS, and lost skills actually right? A funny look at what technology replaced—and what still matters.
Before Benedict Arnold became America’s most famous traitor, he built a makeshift navy on Lake Champlain and helped save the Revolution by losing.
The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners studied drunk bats, zebra cows, pizza-eating lizards, Teflon diets, fingernails, garlic milk, and pasta physics.
Explore the rise and fall of shopping malls, from Roman markets and suburban glory to dead malls, online shopping, and modern reinvention.
A secret WWII sabotage field manual taught civilians how to ruin productivity with meetings, delays, and bureaucracy. It sounds suspiciously familiar.
An obituary for Doctor Who, the beloved sci-fi institution, whose final years alienated longtime fans.
In 1904, a canceled event led to the St. Louis Bullfight riot: angry crowds, no refunds, arson, weak bulls, and one of history’s strangest event-planning disasters.
Calvin Coolidge warned that America’s founding ideals depend on the spiritual roots behind the Declaration of Independence.
Funny medical codes prove life is stranger than paperwork, from turtle attacks and flaming kayaks to burnout, bad bosses, and chicken coops.
Knife-Hand, a medieval Longobard amputee, may have survived by using a knife as a prosthetic. Meet archaeology’s medieval terminator.
The original Bill of Rights began as twelve amendments. One took 203 years to ratify, one is still waiting, and thousands more never made it.
Explore the weird history of Mad magazine, Cracked, and Crazy, the parody magazines that taught generations to laugh at pop culture.
Classic TV commercials like Morris the Cat, Mr. Whipple, Mother Nature, Mikey, and “Ring around the collar” became unforgettable pop culture.
Discover the strange history of SPAM, from its 1937 origin and wartime fame to Hawaii’s devotion, Khrushchev’s praise, Monty Python, spam email, and SPAM theft.
For centuries, Europeans used human remains as medicine, from powdered mummies and skull tinctures to blood from executions. Welcome to the grisly history of corpse medicine.
