While many people were heading the their family's house for Easter or Passover last weekend, plenty of nerds, including myself, skipped the holidays and instead celebrated pop culture at WonderCon, the smaller cousin of...

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Chess, the great game of simulated warfare, has existed for 1500 years and, according to science fiction, will command humanity's intellectual attraction for at least hundreds more. Standard chess is plenty of fun, but w...

These days, chocolate-covered bacon has lost its novelty as bacon has already managed to infiltrate every other food by now, so why not chocolate? On the other hand, there are still plenty of bizarre things to cover in c...

Detail of Judith. Christifano Allori, 1613You might call her the Face That Graced a Thousand Paintings, but one beautiful woman's bravery and wit saved her life, her city, and inspired a holiday tradition that still endu...

You've seen them before. These famous mascots have appeared in countless ads or have graced the pages of websites you visit every day, but do you know their names or how they came to be? Read on for s...

What is it that makes Richard Adams' Watership Down so captivating? I suspect that Adams, a student of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, understood in depth what makes a transcendent story. It is a story that has deeply enr...

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The yearly tradition of celebrating All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween as we know it today, is thought to’ve begun in the 19th century when Scottish and Irish immigrants brought the holiday with them to North Ame...

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