Why Are People Getting Worse at ‘The Price Is Right’?

Americans are worse at The Price Is Right than they used to be. On the game show, which has been running since 1972, four contestants are asked to guess ...

Michael Jordan’s Regrets and Disappointments

In an interview with Michael Jordan, Marvin R. Shanken asked him about his regrets and disappointments in life. This is how he responded:

I'm not the ...

The Surprising Patron Saint of Truthfulness

Historian, philosopher, and author Richard Reevesis is a senior fellow at the think tank Brookings Institution. He is concerned that most people can’t ...

The Enormous Consequences of a Single Misplaced Dot

Mistakes are easily made and it’s often too late to rectify the situation by the time someone notices. That was the case with Spain’s supposedly ...

The Library of Mistakes

In both 1929 and 2008, economic experts everywhere claimed to know exactly what they were doing, yet not a single person could fix the series of mistakes ...

Air Traffic Controller Nearly Causes Collision with ‘Slip of the Tongue’

A "slip of the tongue" by an air traffic controller at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport saw two planes come within 300 feet of crashing into ...

The Repeatedly Lost Sheep

In a YouTube video, a young boy comes across a small sheep stuck headfirst in a long narrow trench which has been dug beside a road. The boy uses his ...

Woman Turns Amazon Shipping Mistake into Hospital Windfall

It started as a mistake, but ended as a sizable donation. Julian Cannan still hasn’t gotten a straight answer for why so many Amazon packages were ...

Elderly Woman Cuts Web Access to Two Countries

An elderly woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to ...

Former Trans Teenager Wishes Someone Had Challenged Her

Keira Bell was fourteen when she first began identifying as a boy. Two years later, she was prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone. At twenty, she ...