As you all know, the Northeast has been slammed with snow snow over the last two weeks, leaving the MBTA severely hampered. Nobody expects the train to run flawlessly during huge snowstorms — especially given how badly state legislators have neglected years of needed repairs — but that’s not going to stop me from dreaming about riding this train through snowbanks like a modern-day Snowpiercer. More
Could anything be more Canadian than building an ice-skating highway?
Probably not, eh? Well, unless you’re skating to a hockey game with a Tim Hortons roll-up coffee eating a nanaimo bar but that’s really beside the point. More
We, as readers of the Internet, have developed an odd fascination of maps of the United States that tell us weird things about each state. The latest of these maps, however, shows just how crazy the people who make up those states are. Estately, a real estate website, has used Google Trends to come up with the top Google searches, and Massachusetts proves to be pretty damn bizarre. More
It was a busy day in Sochi for Men’s Hockey: Finland upset Russia, the USA beat the Czech Republic, and Canada hung on to defeat Latvia. Kevin Paul Dupont from the Boston Globe analyzed all three games, then we looked ahead at the upcoming USA-Canada semifinal. More
I don’t suffer from Bieber Fever, at least, not as far as I know. So, rest assured that I’m not speaking as an obsessive fan girl when I say that the fact that a petition to deport Justin Bieber has reached 150,000 signatures and counting is a sad waste of everyone’s time and an embarrassment to our First Amendment right to petition the government. More
