Miss Cellania
Absinthe, Nerds, and Rocket Packs
by Miss Cellania - May 1, 2008 - 2:28 AM

bloghead_Coffee-Links.gif

Sorry, Absinthe Trippers: Scientists Say You’re Just Really Drunk. Wormwood is not the hallucinogenic it’s made out to be.
*
9 Greatest Nerds on Film: “I’m a nerd, and uh, I’m pretty proud of it.” And they made us all proud to be nerds!
*
The Trouble with Rocket Packs. They’re crowd-pleasers, but they’ll never live up to the expectation Buck Rogers set in the 1920s.
*
How to start a fire without matches. These nine methods might save your life someday, or more likely may impress your friends.
*
Staying healthy and happy is a struggle for about half of Americans, according to a survey of 100,000 people. 49% say they are thriving, while 83% of people in Denmark are.
*
The Art Of Creating Creatures. Theo Jansen discusses his beach-walking “animals” and the marvelous engineering that makes them possible.
*
Happy May Day!  …Whatever that means to you.

Click here to get a Risk-Free issue of mental_floss magazine
Comments (1)
  1. For the Absinthe article, it comes to no surprise that the whole “Green Fairy” thing was BS. Up here in Massachusetts there was a huge scare piece on the local Fox News about how this now legal “opiate drug” is going to poison our youth. Woo go media.

Comment

commenting policy