Creating IRL Fantasies with Improv Everywhere
I’ve posted about Improv Everywhere before, but they were featured on last week’s episode of This American Life (a rebroadcast from 2005) and I thought IE founder Charlie Todd had some really interesting things to say about what his group does and why they do it. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Improv Everywhere [...]
We Want Your Best (and most embarrassing) Halloween Costume Photos!
Is it just me, or was Halloween way more fun when you were a kid? You could trick-or-treat to your heart’s desire (on HALLOWEEN, not the night before – pet peeve of mine) while wearing a sweet, mom-made costume (or that plastic mask from the store that you had to have or you would die) [...]
Men Are More Likely Than Women to Be Hit by Lightning
Natalie Avon writes in Popular Science that between 1995 and 2008, 82% of people in the US killed by lightning were male. The experts that she consulted agreed that this was due to behavioral, rather than biological factors:
Peter Todd, a behavioral psychologist at Indiana University, suspects the difference between the sexes boils down to the [...]
