Category Archives: Mishegas

Wasn’t my fault…

…that I burned three ears of corn. No, my kitchen timer — a little red owl — failed to ring and warn me. I do admit to paying no attention whatsoever, not even when I smelled the pleasant odor of … Continue reading

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Mushrooms talk to teach other

From Harper’s July Findings: The Unconventional Computing Laboratory found that the electrical impulses of mushrooms appear to communicate using vocabularies of up to fifty words, and that split gills form more complex sentence patterns than caterpillar, enoki, and ghost mushrooms. … Continue reading

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Carefully planned team-building exercise

From Harper’s Weekly Review: After strolling across a bed of hot coals as a team-building exercise, 13 people were hospitalized with severe injuries in Switzerland. I trust they shared the same hospital room.

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