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...
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...
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...
Most people don’t give bugs a second thought—other than to swat them away with a rolled-up newspaper. But for Riley Tedrow, an entomologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, thinking about bugs is his life’s work. One insect in particular fascinates him—the praying mantis, or the sucker with the...
As the saying goes, the grass is always greener. Sometimes that’s true in your job. Sometimes that’s true when you get order envy. What if the saying was actually “the green is always grassier?” Normally, that wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense. Unless you’re Carl Spackler, or in...
When it comes to food, sugar and spice is always nice. Something Matthew Hilla knows full well. Case in point: His smokey habañero hot sauce, Hotmaple. It relies on maple syrup as its key ingredient, which provides the right balance of sweet and heat in dishes such...
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. You...
You can build up quite an appetite trying to figure out what to eat for lunch. But should it really be that hard? When you think about it, lunch is actually kinda easy. Check out the flow chart below, and see if you agree.