A Hawk in the Library
You’ve heard of (or perhaps encountered) the librarian who watches patrons like a hawk. Well, for a week visitors to the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress’s Thomas Jefferson Building were watched by an actual hawk. (No word on whether the hawk shushed talkative visitors.) The bird was a female Cooper’s hawk that [...]
The Most Obscene City in America: The Real Story
Recently, Business Insider named Ashburn, VA, the most obscene city in America for 2010. The relative obscenity levels of various American cities were determined by plugging the “seven dirty words you can never say on television” into Google Trends. The results showed how often people search for dirty words on the Internet. I happened to [...]
My Officemates Are Animals
Freelancing from home certainly has its charms. My commute takes fifteen seconds (okay, it actually takes five seconds, but I don’t like to brag). I can work in sweats and a ratty t-shirt and nobody cares. I can take a Wii break whenever I need to get up and move. The best part of working [...]
The Lofty Origins of Slapstick
I don’t know why we enjoy watching other people pretend to beat each other up for a laugh, but we do. Sure, some of us claim to be too intelligent and cultured to find any value in such cheap theatrical antics—at least that’s what we say in public (secretly, though, we just added a stack [...]
Quidditch for Muggles
Admit it, Harry Potter fans, you secretly (or maybe not so secretly) dream of flying around on a broomstick. You long to wear the cool wizarding robes to work and whip out your magic wand to cast a spell on that annoying prat in the next cubicle. You wish you had a house elf to [...]
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