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Don’t Make Hoppin’ John for New Year’s Without Heirloom Beans
The original dish didn’t use black-eyed peas, plus the rice and bacon you have is probably wrong
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Americans ‘Returned’ Around $3.6 Billion Worth of Stolen Goods This Holiday Season
Billions of dollars worth of “gift returns” are actually stolen goods
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The most searched for artists, according to one website, run the gamut from classic masters to Duck Stamp contest winners
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Argentina Has a Superstition That Seventh Sons Will Turn into Werewolves
If the president adopts them, however, the seventh sons are spared from their werewolf fate
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Scientifically Accurate ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ Is Still Charming
Stars aren’t diamonds at all—they’re giant balls of gas
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In Catalonia a Christmas Log Delivers Presents in An Unusual Way
Called Tió de Nadal, the log is decorated with a smiling face and fed until Christmas, but that’s not the strangest part of the tradition
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CBS Executives Thought ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Would Fail
There wasn’t much CBS executives liked about the Christmas special
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Canada’s Outdoor Ice Skating Rinks’ Days Are Numbered Thanks to Climate Change
Skating rinks are already open for fewer days in the year than they were just a decade ago
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These Two Guys Recreate Famous Paintings Using Only Office Supplies and a Phone
FoolsDoArt cranks out slapstick renditions of works ranging from “American Gothic” to “Girl with the Pearl Earring”
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“White Christmas” Is Actually the Saddest Christmas Song
The season would have reminded composer Irving Berlin of his young son who died Christmas Day in 1928
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Architects Analyze Kevin McCallister’s “Home Alone” Booby Traps
Overanalyze Home Alone in every way possible — and it still stands up, all these years later
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Get Set Up With a Family in NYC for Christmas
Don’t be sad at the prospect of spending the holiday alone, a popular photoblog will match you up with a family
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Vinyl Producers Can’t Keep Up With Hipsters’ Demands
Vinyl is cool again, but will it last?
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America’s Best Butter Is Handchurned in Vermont
The price for perfection is $49 per pound
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Making Dead People’s Pulses Beat Again
A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound
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More Americans Are Pro-Gun Than Pro-Gun Control
Americans prioritize gun rights over gun control for the first time in at least 20 years
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Online Students Give Better Reviews to Professors They Think Are Male
Even if the teachers were actually women, if the students thought they were men, the bias stuck
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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture
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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival
An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
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