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Photo credit: William Mark Young/Wikimedia – A cover of A Christmas Carol

Culture, Generations

The scandalous reason Americans say ‘Merry Christmas’ while Brits say ‘Happy Christmas’

Heather Wake

6/27/2026
John Harkes at the Summer of '94 Community Event.

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Culture, Skills

The best coaches don’t give you the answers. They make you find them yourself. Just ask the 1994 U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team.

Kylee Van Dillen

5/22/2026
Photo credit: Wikipedia – A collage using images of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh, one of van Gogh's letters, and The Starry Night.

Culture, Pop Culture

How one woman made Vincent van Gogh, and the myth of the tortured artist, famous

Heather Wake

6/25/2026
Photo credit: Canva – Lorem ipsum text on an electronic reader

Culture, Pop Culture

Woman’s deep dive into ‘Lorem ipsum’ dummy text reveals we’ve had its history oh so wrong

Annie Reneau

6/24/2026
Photo credit: Lisha Dunlap/Pexels & Wikimedia Commons – A tween boy plays a pinball machine inside an arcade, left, and a vintage Dolly Parton pinball machine, right.

Culture, Politics

Why it was illegal to play pinball in South Carolina until just last month

Patrick Hamilton

6/24/2026
People Skills, Science

A controversial scientist created a ‘utopia’ for mice. 19 months in, it all went haywire.

Evan Porter

6/23/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A zebra and a horse side by side, both appear to be laughing.

Animals, Nature

Why do we domesticate some animals but not others? It all comes down to the four Fs.

Annie Reneau

6/22/2026
Photo credit: US National Archives/YouTube – People are fascinated by the features in this 1949 kitchen design.

Innovation, Science

Video of a 1949 kitchen design has people drooling over its brilliant features

Annie Reneau

6/20/2026
Photo credit: Jacques-Louis David/Wikimedia Commons & John Jabez Edwin Mayall/Wikimedia Commons – Why do men in famous portraits all have one hand in their coat?

Culture, Generations

Historians explain why men in old-timey portraits always had one hand in their vest or coat

Evan Porter

6/20/2026
Photo credit: Britannica – The Birth of Venus, Sandra Botticelli

Culture, Generations

Study finds that Venus’s alluring stare in Botticelli’s most famous painting may have pointed to a tragic diagnosis

Heather Wake

6/20/2026
Photo credit: Canva – Theodore Roosevelt overcame many tragedies and offered helpful life advice for grief and depression.

Health, Science

Teddy Roosevelt’s method for overcoming grief and depression holds up more than 100 years later

Emily Shiffer

6/18/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A depiction of a prehistoric tribe gathered around a campfire, left, and a man alone in an empty room, right.

Culture, Generations

Privacy is a newer human invention than even agriculture. What the heck did we do before we had it?

Heather Wake

6/17/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A pensive man superimposed over an adobe house.

Innovation, Science

Adobe houses can last thousands of years and barely cost anything to make. Here’s why they’re banned.

Heather Wake

6/17/2026
Photo Credit: Wikimedia CommonsMany of history's greatest geniuses swore by some pretty bizarre habits and routines.

Life Hacks, Skills

Air baths and North-facing sleep: Strange rituals of some of history’s greatest geniuses

Evan Porter

6/16/2026
Photo credit: Reddit – It's nightmare fuel!

Culture, Pop Culture

The $10 million Jim Carrey fish movie that was too terrifying to finish

Kat Hong

6/15/2026
Photo credit: Public domain – Maria said she "really and truly was not in love" with Georg when they got married.

Culture, Pop Culture

Maria and Georg Von Trapp’s real-life love story is even better than ‘The Sound of Music’

Annie Reneau

6/14/2026