So next time you plan to run off with that homemade ice cream maker, remember you can just buy some Haagen-Dazs. You will save time and a few cubic feet of cupboard space. And your faithful freezer, in the words of Richard Marx, will be right here waiting for you. Jon Fischer – ...
It’s entirely possible that by the time this posts, every bit of this will be out of date–but the way this week is going, I can also see me repeating this entire post next week. This grandpappy isn’t complaining at all, but books are being shoved to the side more often than I...
Yes, some of the facts I mentioned have appeared in several problems, so if such ideas come up again you're able to solve faster. But if you come up with them yourself when you need them the first time, you will know them the next time anyway. And the probability of retaining a fac...
Even those teams that are playing for next year -- that time-honored tradition of making a bad season productive -- will A) have limited ways to do so, given the inactivity of nearly all of their minor leaguers, and B) wonder whether next year is going to feel any realer than this...
First, a quick refresher for those of you who have been sleeping on your Maybe-Teen Tumblr Rap trends: Kitty Pryde is the Florida redhead behind “Okay Cupid,” a hazy homemade-ish rap song and video that took certain music blogs (and the New York Times) by storm last month. She is...
“Call Me Maybe,” which was released on the Canada-only “Curiosity” EP and as a single in the United States in February, was too catchy to be relegated to Internet meme status. Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun first listened to the song last January. “I said, ‘This is the best po...
Whereas another Canadian on the cusp of pop’s upper echelon, male star the Weeknd, hasbenefited greatlyfrom leaving much to the imagination (besides his explicit songs), Jepsen is perceived as out of synch with the aspirational meme-ability of Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Taylor Swift. Female po...
It might be too early to judge this recently-launched human+computer buzz hybrid, but so far the meme detector has caught Hipster-on-Hipster Hatred, Evil Hippies Ruining Stuff, and Racist Jokes as strangely recurrent cultural themes. (See also: Hype Machine & Blogebrity.)...
Storytelling is an integral part of life for Indigenous Australians. From an early age‚ storytelling plays a vital role in educating children. The bookMAYBETOMORROWnarrated by Boori Pryor with Meme McDonald was out March 1998. It is an intimate‚ provocative and deeply moving autobiography of...
there must ultimately come a time when the question has been answered as well as today's science can answer it. Basically, when a certain weight of negative studies builds up, the pre-study probability of a positive result looking at the same question becomes smaller and sm...