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I am a careful driver . The only car accident I was ever involved in was when someone rear-ended me while I was waiting patiently at a red light. The man just didn't notice the intersection and drove right into my car. It wasn't my fault in any way. I always drive slowly and carefully, never doing anything that could endanger me or the people around me. The reason for that is because on the very first day I got my driver's license , I scratched my dad's car while backing out of the driveway. I…

It's normal to be weird

Who doesn’t love a good case of irony? (Well… probably not the people who don’t quite understand it—which, ironically, is ironic). While compiling this listicle filled with ironic moments, my Gen X brain suddenly remembered a scene from the very Gen X movie Reality Bites where Winona Ryder’s character, during a job interview, is asked to define irony. She gets visibly confused and, unable to define the word, loses the chance at the writing job. When I first watched that scene, I didn’t fully gr…

You know that moment when you clean your house and think, "Welp, that's the best I can make it look. It's not much, but at least it looks acceptable "? Well, for some people (like me), it's the same for life in general—it's not much, but at least it looks acceptable at a glance. Am I good at my job? No, but they haven't fired me. Am I close to getting married? No, but I did go on a date six months ago. Am I able to do my taxes on my own? No, but at least I'm not in jail! (Yet. ) So, to all the…

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How come so many great ideas come to us when we are in the bathtub? Like Archimedes coming up with the hydrostatic principle while taking a bath or… Ummm… well, it seems my hypothesis was unfounded since I cannot find another example of a scientific discovery made in the bathtub. But why? It seems like a good place to get sudden realizations about the universe. Lying there, surrounded by warm water, should definitely be a good place for a Eureka moment . I remember having the idea of helium lug…

It's funny because it's peer reviewed!

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A delightful dose of double-take

I'll be honest with you—I really hate life hacks. They started off well, with people sharing clever ways to make life a little easier . But ever since "life hack" videos became insanely viral, we've seen YouTube channels like "5-Minute Crafts," which is probably the worst thing on the internet right now. These channels offer a collection of incredibly dumb life hacks, like fixing a broken screen with toothpaste or using a glue gun to make see-through gloves. But even without these terrible chan…

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It's normal to be weird

I bet you didn’t know it’s National Metric Week, which is celebrated each year during the week containing the 10th of October (see what they did there? 10/10? Because the metric system is all based on 10? Clever!). And the reason you didn’t know about it is that you are either A) using the metric system every day and have no need for National Metric Week, or B) you are an American and will literally use anything other than the metric system. You’ll use feet, stones, grains, football fields, che…

I am a careful driver . The only car accident I was ever involved in was when someone rear-ended me while I was waiting patiently at a red light. The man just didn’t notice the intersection and drove right into my car. It wasn’t my fault in any way. I always drive slowly and carefully, never doing anything that could endanger me or the people around me. The reason for that is because on the very first day I got my driver’s license , I scratched my dad’s car while backing out of the driveway. I…