If you've ever worn transparent plastic shoes, you know how weird and sweaty they can be. Imagine if they were all that and liable to break into dangerous shards, and you can see that a glass slipper is not the best choi...

Here we have an alternative history in which mankind decided that the idea of turning to agriculture was no fun at all. Imagine what kind of civilization we'd have today if that had been true! But when you think outside...

Learning is hard enough when you can't stay focused because you were out partying the night before. But it's even worse when the professor can't stay focused on the topic he's supposed to teach! A hangover will be better...

This lecturer must have a PhD in "completely missing the point." She assumes that the only reason a child could resist a marshmallow is because they don't like marshmallows. It's an even greater leap away from logic to a...

When the apocalypse comes, it's not going to be the way it's scripted out for you in Fallout 4 or Mad Max or The Walking Dead. And even if it were, there will be a lot more red shirts than cult leaders. Think for a momen...

When we discover some class of people have something we don't, our first instinct is to get some of it, while people who have it (whatever "it" is) tend to want to keep it. Children have little recourse against those for...

Mugging is not as profitable as it used to be. Come to think of it, you don't even hear the word "mugging" much anymore. There are more people with a financial sob story than there are people with money. Even if this fel...

Want to sell something? Hit the customer right where he lives. Let them know this is what they really want. If he can get a steady supply of cheese balls, it won't matter who is serving them, how much they charge, or wha...

I had to look it up. The word "spandrel" was originally an architectural term, then was adopted by biologists to describe just what the comic says.Evolutionary biology uses the term spandrel for features of an organism a...

Normally, I'm completely against trolling someone just to provoke a reaction, but in this case, it's so extreme and so fictional that I'll let it pass, maybe as an example of what not to do. This isn't even nice. Oh, sur...