[Categories] > Society & Culture
Museums of Interesting Things (June 1, 2004)
Putting the muse back in museum
Eye Language (June 10, 2004)
Look what you're saying
Six Degrees of Separation (June 21, 2004)
Is it a small world after all?
Social Networking Systems (June 23, 2004)
Getting to know you, digitally
Global Energy Network (June 24, 2004)
World peace through sharing electrons
The Right-to-Quiet Movement (July 7, 2004)
Shouting down excess noise
Tiki (July 14, 2004)
The imaginary Polynesian culture
The Grolla (July 15, 2004)
Coffee, grappa, and friendship
Light Pollution (July 19, 2004)
Urban assault on the night sky
Lightsabres (July 20, 2004)
The myth and technology of the Jedi weapon
Muffin Tops (July 31, 2004)
Bottomless enjoyment
Twin Peaks (August 1, 2004)
Television's most successful coffee ad
Public Enrichment Project (August 7, 2004)
Fun and common sense for a better world
Mercury Retrograde (August 9, 2004)
The all-purpose astrological excuse
The Pluto Controversy (August 11, 2004)
Defining and counting planets
Missile Silo Homes (August 20, 2004)
Hole is where the heart is
Decimal Time (August 25, 2004)
Solutions for people who need 100 hours in a day
The French Meal-Payment Ritual (August 29, 2004)
Why you should always carry matches to a restaurant
The Truth About Bananas (August 30, 2004)
Fingering the world's most popular tropical fruit
Giving Away the Razor, Selling the Blades (September 2, 2004)
The curious strategy of loss-leader marketing
The Handshake (September 3, 2004)
Coming to grips with gestures of greeting
Revenge of the Analog Clock (September 4, 2004)
Time for a pie chart
The Klingon Language Institute (September 12, 2004)
The final frontier of linguistic scholarship
Pittsburghese (September 14, 2004)
America's most underappreciated dialect
The Globe Theatre (September 19, 2004)
Shakespeare's ideal venue, then and now
Propeller Beanies (September 23, 2004)
The story of the geek's icon
The S Curve (September 25, 2004)
What is wrong with success?
Piñatas (October 1, 2004)
History of a breakthrough
Fortune Cookies (October 3, 2004)
The authentic Japanese-American Chinese treat
Cochlear Implants (October 14, 2004)
The sound and the fury
___-of-the-Month Clubs (October 24, 2004)
Old marketing gimmicks never die
Rigo Artwork (October 25, 2004)
Painting by the numbers
Work Week and Vacation Variances (October 28, 2004)
Stress, rest, and productivity
Falling Back (October 30, 2004)
Time (for a) change
Charlie and His Orchestra (November 10, 2004)
Swing music as Nazi propaganda
Carfree Cities (November 19, 2004)
Revenge of the pedestrian
Donate-a-Click Programs (November 21, 2004)
The humane side of internet advertising
Paying It Forward (November 26, 2004)
Spreading the good deed meme
Bookcrossing (November 27, 2004)
Passing the book
The Color Purple (November 29, 2004)
Shades of royalty and mythology
Weblogs Revisited (December 5, 2004)
The phenomenon of public digital journals
Oxygen Bars (December 12, 2004)
I'll have an O…Make it a double.
Memetics (December 16, 2004)
The science of idea propagation
Urban Monorail Systems (December 18, 2004)
The rise of Personal Rapid Transit
English Female Social Titles (December 24, 2004)
Miss-ing the point
The Great Cork Debate (December 26, 2004)
Thinking outside the bottle
The Passglas (December 29, 2004)
Precision measure for drinking games
The Invention of the Wheel (December 30, 2004)
The best thing until sliced bread
Name Tags (January 12, 2005)
Hello, my name is Joe
The Skin Project (January 14, 2005)
Short story as body art
The Thinker (January 18, 2005)
The story behind Rodin's famous sculpture
The Legend of Deolinda Correa (January 26, 2005)
Unofficial saint of the desert
Groundhog Day (February 2, 2005)
The strange ritual of marmot meteorology
Lagniappe (February 12, 2005)
But wait, there's more!
Designer Pets (February 18, 2005)
The next frontier of genetic engineering
Legends of Tierra del Fuego (February 22, 2005)
The incredible shrinking southern continent
Extinction of the Yámana (February 24, 2005)
The end of the race at the end of the world
Cueva de las Manos (February 25, 2005)
Ancient spray-painted art in Patagonia
Slow Food (March 2, 2005)
Taking back the dinner table
The Stone Balls of Costa Rica (March 8, 2005)
Mystery spheres as lawn ornaments
The Oak Island Mystery (March 23, 2005)
Nova Scotia's notorious money pit
Kitty Genovese Syndrome (March 29, 2005)
The problem of the guilty bystander
Egocasting (April 1, 2005)
Personalized entertainment
Daylight Saving Time (April 2, 2005)
Springing forward, grudgingly
Raku (April 6, 2005)
Zen and the art of tea bowls
Fire Breathing (April 7, 2005)
Don't try this at home
Ball Lightning (April 9, 2005)
Unsatisfactorily identified flying objects
The Martini (April 11, 2005)
Why everything you know is wrong
The Toast (April 13, 2005)
Here's to the ritual of raised glasses
The Bavarian Purity Law (April 14, 2005)
Beer and tradition
English Spelling Reform (April 18, 2005)
The difficult path to simpler spelling
Dead Media (April 19, 2005)
Preserving past communication for the future
SETI (April 20, 2005)
The real-life quest to find E.T.
Mail Recovery Centers (April 21, 2005)
Undead letter offices
Safety Coffins (April 23, 2005)
The fact and fiction of dead ringers
The Crypt of Civilization (April 30, 2005)
Museum in a time capsule
House of the Future (May 3, 2005)
Disneyland's 1957 all-plastic house
The Story of Toilet Paper (May 7, 2005)
What goes around, comes around
Passenger Pigeons (May 13, 2005)
The great American extinction
InterPlay (May 17, 2005)
Getting grown-ups back into their bodies
Living Streets (May 18, 2005)
Using uncertainty to calm traffic
The Milgram Obedience Experiments (May 19, 2005)
Just following orders
Tableware Taboos (May 20, 2005)
Civilizing Mealtime
Optical Painters' Aids (May 21, 2005)
A matter of perspective
Coin Tossing (May 25, 2005)
Putting a new spin on randomness
Emperor Norton (May 26, 2005)
Monarch of San Francisco
Moleskine Notebooks (May 30, 2005)
The little black book strikes again
Quiet Parties (June 7, 2006)
Silent night out on the town
Cruise Ship Condos (June 30, 2006)
Making your home on the high seas
Radio Call Letters (July 10, 2006)
Minding your K's and W's
Viral Marketing (July 12, 2006)
Making a fortune with paperclips and pixels
E Clampus Vitus (August 2, 2006)
Brotherhood of the absurd
Gross National Happiness (August 21, 2006)
Bhutan's bottom line
The Marree Man (August 23, 2006)
Mystery artwork in the desert
The Dalahäst (September 25, 2006)
Symbol of Sweden
Vulcan, Alberta (October 30, 2006)
The town that's out of this world
Power Napping (November 1, 2006)
Siestas revisited
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (January 8, 2007)
Faith with a side of Parmesan
Proxemics (February 15, 2007)
The study of personal space
Entomophagy (February 21, 2007)
Insects as food
The Central - Mid-Levels Escalator (February 26, 2007)
Hong Kong's moving landmark
Nyepi (March 14, 2007)
Bali's day of silence
826 National (March 16, 2007)
Pirates, spies, superheroes, and young authors
Royal de Luxe (April 11, 2007)
The theater group with pull
Freecycling (May 7, 2007)
Finding your stuff a new home, painlessly
Shipping Container Architecture (May 21, 2007)
Ship-shape design
Hikaru Dorodango (August 1, 2007)
Mud balls as art
Paris Plages (August 6, 2007)
Bringing the beach to Paris
Planning Your Own Funeral (August 13, 2007)
Having the last laugh first
Complaints Choirs (January 14, 2008)
Setting the world's problems to music
