Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? Another victim of corporate greed.
Weather Observer Sets Record for Reliability: 84 years of daily reports!
Smokey the Bear, the U.S. Forest Service mascot, was born on August 9, 1944. In honor of Smokey’s 70th birthday, the Washington Post dug up some other, less memorable government mascots you may or may not remember.
Humphry Davy, before he became President of the Royal Society, experimented on himself by inhaling large amounts of nitrous oxide, the laughing gas that dentists use today. (via Nag on the Lake)
39 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Doctor Who. I loved the story about the fourth Doctor’s knitted scarf.
Fun Things to Do Outside the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
10 Films That Changed Filmmaking. No, you haven’t seen them all, but you might want to.
The Secret Rules of Adjective Order. We know that you don’t wear a purple pretty shirt; you wear a pretty purple shirt, but how do we know that?
Ghosts of the Freedom Summer. Nikole Hannah-Jones retraces her family’s Civil Rights activities in Mississippi 50 years ago.
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