Why are we stacking cups in PE class?
Cup stacking, also known as sport stacking, has become a regular activity in many physical education classes around the United States. More than 5,000 American schools now include stacking in…
Cup stacking, also known as sport stacking, has become a regular activity in many physical education classes around the United States. More than 5,000 American schools now include stacking in…
A survey asked Americans what time period they would want to live in and found that: 40 percent said they would prefer to live in the present, 45 percent would…
In the novel "Breakfast of Champions," Kurt Vonnegut writes: "I make my living being impolite." So rarely have I read a sentence and felt so instantaneously envious. I can only…
Over the last week, a few people online have been less than kind to me. I wrote a list of suggestions for changes in the NFL, which actually spurred a…
While working conditions in medieval England were brutal for peasants, in some places the workers got better sick, annual, and bereavement leave than plenty of workers get today. Research from…
A new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open tracked 14,000 students in Australia aged 11 to 14 from the year 2019 to 2022. It found that the students underwent a…
Almost ten years ago, I made a list of 11 New Year's resolutions for the NFL. Most of these proposals were relatively simple to adopt and should've been implemented immediately.…
For the past 12 years, I've been the humor columnist for Seasons, a quarterly magazine with a readership of about 200,000 in Connecticut. Twelve years is a long time to…
It's a big day! Today is the twentieth anniversary of my blog — Grin and Bare It — and its earlier permutations, Perpetual Perpetuity and Conform Me Not. My blogging…
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I take my goal-setting and New Year’s resolutions very seriously. Since 2010, I’ve posted my resolutions on…