Ding! Ding! Take your desks, everyone. For today’s lesson, we’ll be attempting to solve Landau’s problems, a series of mathematical equations proposed by Edmund Landau in 1912 that are so difficult, they remain unsolved by modern mathematicians. If you can’t solve them, you get an F. Just kidding,...
Societies develop rules of etiquette for a number of reasons: To signal that you come in peace (in the case of handshakes), to embarrass you at the dinner table (the justification for dessert spoons and fish forks) or to keep those around you safe from whatever leaves...
Misplaced letters, unfinished words and patterns? We’ve officially gone full Da Vinci Code. So pull out your magnifying glass and summon your inner Tom Hanks, because this week’s Rompecabeza is seriously mysterious. These incomplete words have a pattern. Can you find it? Tune in next week for the...
If you’ve ever wondered about who exactly is answering your emails, chatting with you on our site, replying to you on our social accounts and generally trying to make your experience with Dollar Shave Club the bestest EVAR, well then meet Nick Kohan. Nick has been a...
Toss your bags in the hatchback and get out of town, because August is almost over and your boss is calling. There’s arguably no better ‘Murican summer vacation than the cross-country road trip—open pavement, truck-stop waffles and a 12-hour playlist. Don’t know where to go exactly? There’s...
Nothing goes better with a pair of dugout tickets to your local baseball game than a big bag of peanuts. But while peanuts may taste nutty, they’re not nuts at all. They’re legumes. That’s right, we’ve been living a lie this entire time, and we’re not happy...
The gasses released when you fart are like apples: All it takes is a single bad one to spoil the whole bunch. Most of the gas that comes tooting out of your hind end, including carbon dioxide and methane, is odorless. But when even just a little...
George R. R. Martin once wrote, “Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese, and I’m a happy man.” And ol’ George wouldn’t be alone in thinking that cheese is happiness. Whether it’s baked, broiled or fried, the vast majority of the cheese we...
In this month’s rompecabeza we’re setting a date. Well, setting a date and then adding a secret number to get another number. Can you figure out the pattern below? Check back next week for the answer. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE Last week we challenged you to draw one...
For city dwellers, it often can seem that the best way to escape the summer heat is to hit the road. And, according to Climate Central, an organization of scientists studying climate change, they’d be right. The phenomenon known as the “urban heat island effect” is the...
Getting enough sleep is no easy feat. Balancing work, play and the 11 p.m. bark-a-thon next door can make it downright impossible to get your recommended eight hours. Which is a real shame, because sleep happens to be a miracle drug: It can keep your weight in...
Ear hair is both mysterious and polarizing. Some people are genuinely repulsed by it, whereas others find it to be the cutest thing ever. Whatever your feelings are, like it or not, ear hair is a standard fact of life for many guys—74% of them, according to...
