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...
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...
Listening to music at the gym with your smartphone flopping around your pocket is the worst. But not the worst. That distinction belongs to needing to remove your phone from your arm band’s plastic prison to skip to the next track. Which is why Mark Kinsley created...
Burning bridges is scary, and for some people, so is crossing them. The fear of bridges, also known as gephyrophobia, is no joke. In fact, the New York Thruway Authority helps drivers across the Tappan Zee Bridge all the time–if they call ahead of time, that is. Hopefully you’re not a gephyrophobiac, because...
Playing in the warm summer sand is all fun and games, that is, until you start sinking Lawrence of Arabia style. But don’t worry: despite what it may look like in the hilarious stock image above, quicksand won’t actually kill you. A study published in the Nature...
A windy day at the beach can mean collecting sand in interesting places—your shoes, your ears and in your, ahem, crevices. But in locations where the wind doesn’t stop, all that swirling sand tends to collect in another interesting place—sand dunes. Most of these sandy hills grow...
