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Roz Savage: First Woman to Row Solo From California to Hawaiimental_floss Blog - Sep 5, 2008 Early on the morning of September 1, Roz Savage became the first woman to row, alone, from California to Hawaii. The voyage of 2,600 miles took her 99 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. During the trip she was in … Also tagged: technology, blogs, current events, around the world, planes trains and automobiles, armchair field trip |
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10 Ruthless Rock Managersmental_floss Blog - Sep 2, 2008 By Bill DeMain They’ve got bad hair and big cigars, and they want their 10 percent. Meet the world’s most notorious music managers. 1. The Kingmaker: Colonel Tom Parker Strange but true: Elvis Presley never … |
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9 Modern-Day Independence Movementsmental_floss Blog - Aug 29, 2008 by Jeff Fleischer You’ve heard all about Palestine and Tibet, Quebec and Chechnya. But those aren’t the only places that want to be sovereign. Here are 10 more would-be countries looking forward to paying U.N. dues … |
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12 Unusual College Football Trophiesmental_floss Blog - Aug 28, 2008 As the college football season kicks off, teams are ready to vie for the two national championship trophies. But that’s not the only hardware that will change hands this season, since many intercollegiate rivalries … |
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6 of LBJ’s Favorite Things (on his 100th Birthday)mental_floss Blog - Aug 27, 2008 Lyndon Johnson was born 100 years ago today. Here’s a piece from mental_floss magazine on some of LBJ’s favorite things, including his Amphicar—the only amphibious passenger automobile ever mass-produced for civilians … |
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Fictional Sports Invade the Real Worldmental_floss Blog - Aug 25, 2008 Authors love to make up games for their fictional worlds — but these games are typically unplayable in the real world. Quidditch served as the backdrop for plenty of dramatic action in the Harry Potter books, but it … |
mental_floss Blog - Aug 24, 2008
As a relatively tall person, I know that excessive height means struggling to find fashionable shoes that fit and fighting sneeze guards at salad bars. Here are the stories of several people way taller than me, the …
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The Conservatives Hated Bush (and 7 Other Reactions to VP Choices)mental_floss Blog - Aug 19, 2008 Senator Obama is likely to name his running mate this week, possibly as early as tomorrow morning. So we went back into the archives of The New York Times to see the initial reaction to past VP announcements. Here’s … Also tagged: blogs, lists, top story, fit to print |
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Who Invented Sliced Bread, Anyway?mental_floss Blog - Aug 18, 2008 It may get a lot of credit now, but at the time of its debut in 1928, sliced bread received less-than-rave reviews. Baker and inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder had spent 15 years perfecting his bread slicer (finally … |
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10 Other Amazing Buildings by 2008’s Olympic Architectsmental_floss Blog - Aug 18, 2008 If you have any interest in the Olympics, you’ve certainly seen Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” and “Water Cube.” But who are the geniuses behind them? And what other structures pad their résumés? Ben Smith’s got all the … Also tagged: blogs, sports, architecture, current events, top story |