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New Yorkistan
The best ever selling issue of “The New Yorker” magazine bore cover artwork that celebrated the diversity and mishmash of the city and all of its…
 • Remo Giuffré
Tickle Torture
Being tickled to death is not as funny as it sounds.
 • Remo Giuffré
Teddy Bear
Today is International Teddy Bear Day. [Ed: There’s a day for everything, am I right?] We get the idea of a toy bear, but why is it specifically a…
 • Remo Giuffré
Ampersand
Today is World Ampersand Day. Where did this odd little symbol come from?
 • Remo Giuffré
One Red Paperclip
Kyle MacDonald started with just a single red paperclip. A year later, he owned a house.
 • Remo Giuffré
What’s Daggy?
“Dag” (a person) and “daggy” (an adjective) are hard-to-define examples of Australian slang, and they can mean slightly different things to different…
 • Remo Giuffré
Capoeira
Capoeira is a cultural expression that fuses elements of martial arts, dance, music, acrobatics and spirituality. Enslaved Afro-Brazilians used Capoeira…
 • Remo Giuffré
The Trolley Problem
The “trolley problem” is a famous thought experiment in moral philosophy – a deceptively simple scenario that exposes deep tensions in how we think…
 • Remo Giuffré

August 2026

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