Three Guinness World Records You Can Beat at Home While You Wait For Everything to Go Back to Normal

What a year this has been.     We’re approaching what is approximately the 487th consecutive day of March 2020, and by this point in the pandemic, we’ve proven as a species that we are more than willing to set aside our differences, work together, and sacrifice for the greater good. Thanks to our joint efforts, COVID-19 has become nothing more than memory;  the pandemic…

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How to Social Distance Like a Dinosaur

At a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be a paleontologist. My parents were well aware that I was the sort of soft, round Indoor Child who was probably not well-suited to a life of scraping bones out of sun-baked rocks in the 40-degree-Celsius heat of an unforgiving Mongolian desert. Nevertheless, they supported my dreams by shuttling me to and from the…

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A Brief Introduction to my Six-Year Blood Feud With C-3PO

In the spring of 2014, I attended the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo in Calgary, Alberta, partially because I am an enormous nerd, and partially because there is no sunscreen known to man or science that will let me spend Spring Break at a beach destination without accidentally discovering a new kind of melanoma. Frankly, someone of my constitution and complexion has no business entering…

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