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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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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840
For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn’t really a thing until the 1950s
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Found in “Penny Papers” from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem
A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant
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Russia Has Its Own Classic Version of an Animated Winnie-the-Pooh
Three short films produced from 1969 through 1972 follow the adventures of A.A. Milne’s characters
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Pardoned Turkeys Spend a Night in a Hotel First
After an evening in a $350 hotel room, today President Obama will spare the birds from the butcher’s block
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