How To Enjoy the Mental Floss Summer Fun "How-To" Guide:

Step #1: Be enticed by our whimsical cover and open up the magazine.
Step #2: Notice that the cover story promises to reveal secrets to mastering everything you've always wanted to do-walk on fire, time-travel, catch a giant squid, even colonize a nation.
Step #3: Flip to page 38 and commence enjoyable reading experience. Spread word of said experience to friends, who can then repeat Steps #1 through #3 for themselves.
Step #4: Scan horizon for potential pals to impress with your newfound skills. If you do end up colonizing a nation, be sure to leave a forwarding address for your subscription.

The Summer Fun "How-To" Guide features:

Tales from the Dork Side: A Short History of Hacking
The Life (and Death) of the Party: Adventures in Third-Party Politics
The Green March: How Morocco Roused Its Citizens to Fight an Unarmed War

And feel smart about:

How an Earthquake Spawned the Greatest Immigration Fraud Scheme in History Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" I.M. Pei's Le Grand Louvre
10 Modes of Transportation That Never Got Into Gear
Mad Scientist of the Month: Paul Erd's
50-Cent Tour: Morocco
How Morocco Got Its Groove Back (and How the Gnawa People Got Some Respect)
Six Degrees of Ken Jennings: Lint and Lent
Dead Guy Interview: Oscar Wilde

Plus: a "Disco" scatterbrained that'll make you boogie till you just can't boogie any more, a Know-It-All's look at the letter H, a 25-question quiz to end all quizzes, and more!