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According to the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl website, the first ever organized game of American Football has been played on the African continent, between a Mexican team, the CONADEIP All Stars, and the Drake University Bulldogs. There’s no money in it…

Vaughan Bell at Slate runs down some history on what happens to doomsday cults and the like when their prophecies about the end of the world don’t come true. It’s an interesting piece because Bell does a good job of…

GM is upping its production of Volts because of increased demand. Remember when bailing out GM was going to be a disaster? What will the end of the Space Shuttle mean for scientific experimentation in space? Remember when Gov. Bobby…

So Rapture Day is here. Is anyone missing? I’d make fun of these people, but I can’t top what they’ve done to themselves. Daniel Nester asks what unions have ever done for us. The Mothership has a new home–the Smithsonian’s…

Click here to read a piece by our very own Isaac Fitzgerald, with illustrations by our very own Jon Adams. It’s about a bar.

As it turns out, the most important question (evolution-wise) may be “what’s that smell?” I really like these Winnipeg skating shelters. I’ve been worried about this sort of thing for a while; digital masters are disappearing. Looking at Chayefsky’s Network…

Three of our favorite comedians, W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito, are unleashing a guerrilla stand-up comedy tour on America: Laughter Against The Machine. Click the link to learn more, and check out their sweet promotional video after…

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