A History of the World According to Facebook

Towards the end of last year, I found myself up against an article deadline for this website while a few cocktails deep. This is not a great place to be, because a) you’re short on more

Messograf Pen by Cleo Skribent

Your average guy uses an an average pen: unremarkable and cheap. It writes, and that’s the extent of its talents (maybe you occasionally use it to pensively chew on). But considering we all use a more

The New Art

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Bizarre World Records

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World records are usually spoken of in terms more

Bizarre World Records

This post is brought to you by Saab. At Saab, we believe in independent thinking. It’s in everything we do. Learn more here. World records are usually spoken of in terms of the professional athlete, (continue reading…)

5 Iconoclasts and their Moment

Over the eons, the arc of human history has been bent towards a new future by many things: the invention of the wheel, the signing of the Magna Carta, the Renaissance, the split atom, a (continue reading…)

Behind Simple Ingenuity: The stories behind some of the simplest–and most brilliant–inventions ever

This post is brought to you by Saab. At Saab, we believe in independent thinking. It’s in everything we do. Learn more here. Some of the greatest inventions of the modern era--the microprocessor, the internal (continue reading…)

If My Automated Emails Told the Truth

Valentine’s Day By The Numbers

Apps We Wish Existed

In the last several years, Apps have become ubiquitous in everyday life. They have cute names like Shazam or Emoji, and do cute things like read barcodes or slice digital fruit. And while (continue reading…)

Charlie Sheen’s Crossword Leaked

New twists in Charlie Sheen's well-publicized Oct. 26th bender just don't stop coming.  The details of the night have been colorful enough already--a drunken, drug-addled, and very naked Sheen tearing apart his (continue reading…)

Ironic Deaths

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon was a 17th century English philosopher, scientist, author, and all-around smart dude with a cool last name.  He’s widely regarded as the father of the scientific method, and often debated to be (continue reading…)

What Mark Zuckerberg Could Buy with His $6.9 Billion

A few weeks ago 26 year-old Mark Zuckerberg—the founder of Facebook, for those of you who’ve been living in a cave—was recently ranked on the Forbes 400 at #35 with 6.9 billion dollars.  This is an (continue reading…)

Linear Edge Track Artwork

If you think these are abstract pieces of line art, you’re not a racing fan. These are the furthest thing from abstract, actually; they’re perfect reproductions of some of the world’s most vaunted race tracks. more

75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking

If you and your buddy are in a battle over who can purchase the most ridiculously large book, then you have just won. Beyond that, Paul Levitz’s seminal anthology on one of the greatest comic more