Mark and Derek’s Time Traveling Rules
If the only people who could time travel were a couple of teenagers.
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Magic Powerful Modern Curses
Powerful modern curses for today's everyman.
Magic Grizzly Man: The Reckoning
What will happen to you after your search for "Grizzly Man death footage" is finally successful.
Beauty My Grandmother, the Time Traveler
On the author's grandmother, and how dementia has made her world larger, not smaller.
Magic The Future of Wes Anderson is Tom Wolfe
Wes Anderson is going to age into Tom Wolfe, here is photographic evidence.
science A Look at Australia’s Coming Climate Change Dystopia
Stephanie Lai examines the likely form climate change will take in Australia, with some intriguing embellishments.
If I Were a Superhero
Caroline O'Donoghue, on the kind of superhero she would be. There would be a valiant dog involved.
Witches I Had So Much Witch Cred My Classmates Wanted Me Dead
Amanda Pickering, on the time her fellow students voted unanimously to burn her at the stake for being a witch.
History AP History in the Less Magic Kingdom: “The Mermaid’s War”
The lesser-known true tale behind "The Little Mermaid," as taught in the Less Magic Kingdom's AP History class.
Humor Subliminal Product Placement on My Netflix Queue
Nancy Holochwost on the items she suspects Netflix is selling her via product placement.
Magic A Linguist Explains What Old-School British Accents Sounded Like
British accents of the past! Would Draco Malfoy's dad have sounded like that in The Patriot? Would Ichabod Crane? Gretchen McCulloch will tell us.
Magic A Mathematician’s Expressions of Love
Erin Luhks made us something she promises is about love, from the point of view of a mathematician.
Magic A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow.
Gretchen McCulloch can see past the Comic Sans and into the beating heart of doge. Let her help you do the same.
Magic A Linguist Explains the Rules of Summoning Benedict Cumberbatch
Gretchen McCulloch, our Gal Linguist, explains why some made up names sound like Benedict Cumberbatch, and others don't, using Language Science.
Magic It’s Friday the Thirteenth: Tell Us Your Superstitions
The readers of The Toast share their own superstitions and those of others.
