Salami slicing refers to a series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be difficult or unlawful to perform all at once. The term is typically used pejoratively.…

You had one trip to the salad bar. So dammit, you had to make it count.

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Miami University has an excerpt from The Phaedrus, a dialog between Socrates and someone named — wait for it — Phaedrus, that Plato wrote. Presumably, Plato didn’t misrepresent So…

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English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer

Thank Westbrook Pegler, Joe McCarthy, and Ronald Reagan.

Information on the alligator snapping turtle.

Learn more about the origins and legacy of the popular Spanish folk song “La Cucaracha,” and discover the version that references cannabis.

Thanks to a 1917 Canon law and the success of Apollo 11, the moon is a part of the Diocese of Orlando, FL.

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1974 film by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder

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I have noticed I have had great success using another co-worker as a metaphorical rubber duck (sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally). It improves my productivity vastly and helps me rationalise my code. However, I know that it probably distracts…

Joseph Peter Vaghi: Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress.

Two young people found dead on the face of a cliff reportedly entered a death pact on the internet before ever meeting each other.

world's oldest social housing complex, built by Jakob Fugger in Augsburg

Once a week or so, sloths climb down from their trees and poop on the ground. It feels so good, they do a little dance. But this time of pleasure is also a time of peril.