Sure,we could make the obligatory Keith Richards gag here, but dinosaur jokes are so Mesozoic Era. Why don't we just fast forward to the stories and deliver some Satisfaction... READ ON
New Scientist, easily our favorite science magazine, has a fascinating piece on how scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have come up with a genius new way of building circuits. While still built from the same old materials (plastic and silicone), these new circuits can both stretch and bend (it's like your motherboard on yoga!). In fact, they can even be folded around coins. Of course, why the scientists chose to bend them up against coins, the article refuses to reveal. What the... READ ON
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OK, so the shirts aren't exactly new (they've been here for a week), but the discount does end tomorrow at midnight. Simply put any of these shirts in your shopping cart, and enter the code "shirtoftheday" into the discount code, and you'll get 10% off your purchase.... READ ON
With Eliot Spitzer dominating today's news, we decided to look back at other so-called virtuous figures who became embroiled in sex scandals. 1. Aimee Semple McPherson... READ ON
If you sell your soul to the devil, you might as well have something nice and shiny to show for it, right? If these dirty dealers didn't know how to live good, they sure knew how to live well. 1. Leona Helmsley... READ ON
The Amazing Fact Generator is hungry. Today's topic: TV Trivia. Leave your (amazing) TV fact in the comments, with your name and location. If it's both amazing and true, we'll toss it in the Generator, credited to you. Supply the most amazing fact and win a copy of Dick Van Patten's Totally Terrific TV Trivia. Important note: Please don't just go to a TV trivia site and copy/paste a fact, then claim it as your own. That's cheating. And let's limit everybody to five submissions each. To get a feel for... READ ON
With the recent Obama plagiarism flap dominating the media, we figured it'd be a good time to revisit a few other famous cases of word borrowing. 1. Martin Luther King Jr: I Heard a Dream (Which Subsequently Became My... READ ON
We know how tough it is to buy a Valentine's Day gift for that special nerdy someone. Sure, you could buy them another set of diamond encrusted spectacles, or that gold-plated pocket protector they've had their eye on, but why not prove your love with something a little more thoughtful (and a lot less expensive): the mental_floss Valentine's Day Special! Not only will your big-brained Sweetie get a full year of mental_floss magazine, but we'll throw in a special gift issue, AND our first ever,... READ ON
1. The "Computer" That Outsmarted Napoléon Centuries before Deep Blue started whuppin' on Russian grand masters, a chess-playing automaton nicknamed "the Turk" was thrashing all manner of chess players. Atop a wheeled wooden cabinet was a seated, life-sized mannequin made of wood and dressed in Turkish garb. The Turk held a chessboard in his wooden lap, and he beat 'most all comers—including Napoléon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. Premiering in the... READ ON
5 Questions: Jimmy Hoffa
Lesser-Known Founding Fathers
Presidential retreat Camp David is named after Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson.
