For those of you who liked our articlette on SuTree, the free learning videos website, you'll like this one, too.
Mental Floss, ('feel smart again' is their tag line) is a magazine, blog, an email newsletter, a trivia game, and several books. Their humorous packaging of knowledge, trivia, and entertainment has a become a small cottage industry. We find it irresistible.
We wanted to call your attention especially to Condensed Knowledge which rewards random dipping: scandals that rocked the art world, things Einstein got wrong, tiny nations that get no respect -- things like that. You can also get a four-pack of their most recent book titles: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets, Scatterbrained, What's the Difference?, and Genius Instruction Manual.
written on Thursday May 10, 2007
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