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Eight Stories of Locked-In Syndromemental_floss Blog - Oct 9, 2008 Imagine losing control over everything. You can’t move on your own. You can’t scratch an itch. And worse still, you can’t tell anyone around you that you have an itch. You can feel pain, hunger, loneliness, and fear … |
mental_floss Blog - Oct 7, 2008
Those of you who have been around the mental_floss blog for a while know I grow pumpkins in my garden. Last spring I wrote about how gardeners are using molds to grow vegetables in odd shapes, and I said I was going to …
mental_floss Blog - Oct 2, 2008
The stock market swings up and down, but fashion never fluctuates in corporate America. Every weekday in most big city offices, you’ll find a workforce dressed all alike, in business suits in a variety of colors …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 30, 2008
The English Channel (La Manche) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Britain from France. The actual channel is the length of the entire southern coast of England, and contains many inhabited islands. When …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 25, 2008
We’ve all seen those holiday cookies with pictures inside. You buy a roll of dough, slice the cookies, and bake. Kids love them, no matter how they taste. How do they get those pictures inside? Couldn’t you do …
Also tagged: blogs, food and drink
mental_floss Blog - Sep 23, 2008
Once upon a time, wedding bands were plain gold, or more likely gold plated. Their value was in the symbolism. “Look, I’m married!” or “Forget him; he’s married.” Today many who tie the know want something that also …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 18, 2008
You know octopuses are strange creatures. They’ve always been part of our nightmares and scary stories, but that’s mainly because they look so odd. The more you know about them, the stranger they seem. Eight Limbs …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 16, 2008
Early on, Segways developed a reputation for being useless and nerdy, but in the last few years people have found plenty of things you can do with, or on, a segway. The personal transporters are becoming more popular …
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mental_floss Blog - Sep 11, 2008
There have always been tales of blue people in mythology, popular fiction, and in the news. Yes, blue people exist here and there in the real world. Two conditions cause people to live and be (literally) blue …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 9, 2008
Faithful, loyal, devoted, steadfast -that’s a good dog. It’s part of what they are. Here are six who give a new meaning to the word loyalty. 1. Hachiko In the article 7 Heroic Dogs, we met Hachiko, an Akita who …