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Katniss Everdeen’s Three-Fingered Salute Has Become a Real-Life Symbol of Resistance in Thailand
In “The Hunger Games,” a three-fingered salute indicated resistance. Now it does in Thailand, too.
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Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Is Going to Live Underwater for 31 Days
Fabien Cousteau will honor his grandfather’s legacy for over a month
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Daughters Who See Their Dad Doing Chores Aspire to Less Stereotypically Female Careers
Seeing a man do the household chores seems to reassure girls that it’s no longer 1950
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The National Spelling Bee Ended With a Tie For the First Time in Half a Century
One champion later said he and his co-winner were competing against the dictionary, not each other
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Visit a Glass Labyrinth in Kansas City
The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., has a new interactive sculpture in the sculpture garden
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Maya Angelou Was One of the Most Influential Voices of Our Time
Maya Angelou was poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, dancer and civil rights activist
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NASA’s Art Contest Reveals How Kids See the Future
NASA’s Langley Research Center asked students from Virginia to participate in an art contest
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Take a Look at How Disney Got Investors for Disneyland
Boing Boing was given the original Disneyland prospectus, and now you can see it
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Larry Kramer Waited 30 Years for His Play About the Early Years of AIDS to Be a Film
Kramer hopes “The Normal Heart” inspires a new generation of activists
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A Professor Proposes Creating the Matrix for Factory-Farmed Chickens
He wants to give them the Virtual Free Range™ experience
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Google Doodle Celebrates Rubik’s Cube 40th Birthday
For its 40th Birthday, the cube goes digital
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How to Predict If Your Baby Name Idea Is Too Trendy
A statistical analysis tries to predict how names’ popularity will change over coming decades
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In the Victorian Era, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help Keep Men Healthy
The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns
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Staying Near Home Becomes the Norm For Millennials
With finances tight and jobs scarce, hometowns are looking very attractive
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Kids And Young Adults Don’t Read Books for Fun — They’ve Got Smartphones
Three times as many kids as in the 1980s just don’t read books
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Boko Haram Video Says What the Group Wants in Exchange for Freeing Abducted Girls
If let go, they have a good chance of being able to recover emotionally
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We’re Drinking Whiskey Faster Than Distillers Can Make More
Whiskey supplies are running low
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This 300 Year Old Book Is a Guide to Every Paint Color Imaginable
Browse through color swatches from the 17th Century
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This Radio Station Broadcasts All Over the World, But Only at Breakfast Time
Global Breakfast Radio operates in every time zone on the planet
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