Election Day in the United States falls on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, a formula that places it somewhere between November 2 and November 8 depending on the year. On Election Day, Americans cast votes for federal offices including every seat in the House of Representatives, roughly a third of the Senate,…
Things I Like: Nintendogs (Nintendo DS)
Nintendogs came out roughly 20 years ago and was genuinely a big deal at the time. Plenty of people were initially skeptical, but I distinctly remember the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu awarding it a perfect 10 out of 10, a score reserved strictly for the absolute best of the best back then. Plenty of outstanding…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Chemical Element Ytterbium
Ytterbium is a soft, silvery rare-earth metal with atomic number 70, best known today for its role in high-power fiber lasers, though its path to discovery was a tangled, decades-long story involving mistaken identities and scientific rivalry. Its name comes from Ytterby, a tiny village in Sweden where a mineral containing the element was first…
Our 2026 Halloween
Halloween is, in some ways, my favorite holiday of the year, and I look forward to it every single time. I even get a little sad when Halloween night ends and there are another 365 days of waiting. Like every year, I put a lot of thought into our Halloween for 2026, and like any…
10 Fun Facts and Trivia For November 2026
Walt Whitman Park holds the distinction of being the site of the very first playground built on public parkland specifically for the children of United States government workers. King Eadwig of England carries a peculiar historical reputation, widely remembered for allegedly abandoning his own coronation feast to “spend the night” with his wife and mother-in-law….