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The #1 Story Picks of 2014 From Longreads
Longreads.com features the best storytelling on the Web from hundreds of publishers. This month, they’re also featuring their favorite stories from 2014. It’s quite a list.
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‘Orange Is The New Class’ (The Atlantic)
Down time over the holidays may have afforded you the chance to binge-watch your favorite series (although any self-respecting House of Cards fan has long been in withdrawal and, having gobbled up the...
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How to Watch Tonight’s Big Game Online
Say you’re traveling or you have to work and can’t be near that big flatscreen. You might not be able to see all the great commercials, but there are still a few ways to watch the big game on your...
View ArticleGiant Polar Bear Puppet Roams the Streets of London (Alaska Dispatch)
Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” (anybody?) ought to watch out for a Polar Bear roaming the streets of that fair city. An eight-foot-tall Polar Bear puppet, created to help promote Sky Atlantic’s...
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Why We Set Our Clocks Ahead—And What Happens When We Do (The Independent)
Good for golfers but bad news for the television networks. Saves energy but contributes to an upswing in heart attacks. These are some of the effects of losing that one hour this morning. Read on to...
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David Chase on the Sopranos Final Episode (DGA Quarterly)
It’s been eight years since that final episode aired; the one where the screen goes to black on Tony Soprano as he sits in a local ice cream parlor with his wife, Carmela, and his son, A.J. It was the...
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Top Rated Movies In Each State
Some of these are obvious…you would expect The Godfather to be the #1 movie in New York and Casino to be tops in Nevada. But there are a few surprises here, including the state with the...
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Photos: Bowdoin’s Spring Gala Transforms Smith Union
Bowdoin students filled an elegantly transformed Morrell Lounge in the David Saul Smith Union Saturday night for the annual semi-formal Spring Gala organized by Student Activities and a Bowdoin...
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Look It Up: Emoji, Hashtag and Lolz Among Newest Approved Scrabble Words (NPR)
Scrabble players will be delighted to learn that more than 6,500 words have been added to Collins’ Official Scrabble Words. Many of the additions reflect newer trends in the English language, such as...
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Winner of NBC’s ‘The Voice’ Played with Custom Guitar from Dana Bourgeois ’75...
When 16-year-old Sawyer Fredericks won the NBC singing competition show, The Voice, his grand finale was a rendition of “Please,” a song written specifically for him by his idol, former Lewiston...
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‘What is Bowdoin?’ is The Question to a ‘Jeopardy!’ Answer — Again
That sound you heard last evening was that of Polar Bears across the land — screaming at their televisions during Jeopardy! The $1,200 clue in the College Knowledge category — “Sam Adams signed an act...
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Page Turners: The Rising Popularity of ‘True Crime’ (The Atlantic)
True crime, or the non-fiction genre examining real life crimes and the people involved, has been around since the days of Edgar Allan Poe, who was its pioneer with the publication of The Mystery of...
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Spoilt for Choice? This Newest Design Trend Wants to Make Choices for You...
A trip down the cereal isle in the supermarket can make it apparent that we are overwhelmed with choice. Creative industry mogul Aaron Shapiro is trying to change that. He wants technology to predict...
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Feeling Lucky: Goofy Alternatives to Google (The New York Times Magazine)
Want to spice up your Google searches? Joshua Cohen of The New York Times Magazine suggests some alternative search engines that can shake up your search results, from giving you the previous...
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The History of the LOL (The Conversation)
Haha, LOL, Hehe, Hoho, ROTFL — it seems there are nearly unlimited ways to express laughter, chuckling or giggling with text. According to The Conversation, some of these these textual acknowledgments...
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Infographic: The 30 Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages (Vox)
This chart from Vox compiles the most-edited Wikipedia pages currently in existence, spanning countries, presidents, soccer teams and religious figures. The list also includes the page on Wikipedia...
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The History of the ‘Song of the Summer’ (Vox)
Tune in to any top-40 radio station this summer and you will probably hear a question that has been asked as long as radio has been around: what is the song of the summer? According to Vox, this...
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Annotated and Online: The Grateful Dead’s Deep Literary Roots (Open Culture)
From the album American Beauty to Workingman’s Dead, the Greatful Dead were famously masterful with their lyrics. Interwoven with references to folk songs and poems, it can be difficult, if not...
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How the American Girl Doll Became Queen of the World (Racked)
Doll hair salons, doll cafés, dolls for your dolls. These are all part of the multimillion dollar world ruled by the American Girl Doll, the object of many young girls’ obsession. But how did we get...
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