Is the best part of waking up a hot cup of coffee, or a steamy shower? Is your favorite bedtime ritual a soothing rinse, or a calming cocktail to take the edge off? In the end, it doesn’t much matter. Like the order in which you floss...
Why take the elevator when you can take the stairs? That’s Steve Jankelson’s mantra—well, at least it is when he’s participating in the Big Climb, a charity race to the top of the Columbia Center in Seattle, the second tallest building west of the Mississippi. Which adds...
You know what movie studios need to make more of? Westerns. The Western is a truly underappreciated genre in contemporary film. Not a fan? Well, do yourself a solid and check out some of the classic Sergio Leone-directed Spaghetti Westerns. A personal favorite is Once Upon a Time in the West. That...
A mix of clichéd metaphors and hyperbolic buzzwords such as “mission critical” and “scalability,” the ubiquitousness of office clichés will make you feel like you’re taking crazy pills. Because if you work in an office long enough you know this seemingly innocuous jargon is actually loaded in hilarious subtext. This week in Office...
We’ve all got baggage, some more damaging than others. Sometimes your baggage remains hidden to the outside world, known only to your therapist or failed romantic conquests. Other times, you wear it right on your face. Dark bags or circles under your eyes can make you look...
Tim Paul grew up racing. While the rest of us were still playing with matchbox cars, nine-year old Tim was speeding a go-kart around a dirt track outside of New York City. Working his way up the ladder from sprint cars to midgets, and all the way...
Don’t know about you, but we’ve had it with this monkey-fighting snake in this Monday-to-Friday box. See what you can do about it by solving this puzzle. DSC members are among the smartest people in the world. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be smarter. With the help...
There’s nothing like breaking nearly every bone in your body to inspire a new business idea. After a fall that left him with 15 broken bones and skull fractures, Larsen Jay swore the get-well bouquets he received helped him heal faster. Leaving behind a job as a...
A wise man once said, “I am the walrus.” A more obscure, but equally important man probably once said, “I am the narwhal.” But unfortunately, he’ll be relegated to the footnotes of history. And on that note, a puzzle. Check back next Friday for the answer! ANSWER...
The lunar eclipse on April 4 got us pondering the moon and the men who’ve landed on it. Turns out that in the nearly 50 years since man first stepped on the moon, he’s left quite a mess. All told, the 100-something moon missions (two of which blasted off...
Sometimes the smell from your trip to the toilet is so terrible that it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Unfortunately, other than changing your diet—e.g., decreasing the amount of meat in your diet—there’s not much you can do about the odor of your...
DSC members are among the smartest people in the world. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be smarter. With the help of our friends at American Mensa, DSC is proud to bring you weekly Rompecabezas (Spanish for “head breakers”) to boost your IQ into the thermosphere. Another...
