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Mental_floss: Feature Stories to Make You Smile . . .

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Mental_floss: Feature Stories to Make You Smile, Feed your Right Brain, Nurture your Left Brain, Indulge your Scattered Brain, and Learn to Spin the Globe!


Mental_floss is divided up into the following sections:
  • scatter_brained. In this section, a number of trivia items (all connected to an encompassing topic through puns) are written about in short paragraphs.
  • right_brain. Articles about "right brain" topics (e.g. art and literature), such as Six Degrees of Ken Jennings, can be found here.
  • left_brain. This section deals with topics that would befit the "left brain" areas (math, logic, etc.).
  • spinning the_globe. A different part of the world is explored each issue. spinning the_globe always begins with a section describing a "50 cent tour" of whatever region that issue is focusing on.
  • The Quiz. In each issue, there is a quiz in the back of the magazine. There is also a mini quiz consisting of five questions on the mental_floss website every day.
In their words:
For the record: mental_floss magazine is an intelligent read, but not too intelligent. We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, smile a lot and then we part ways. Great times. And you only realize how much you learned from us after a little while. Like a couple days later when you're impressing your friends with all these intriguing facts and things you picked up from us, and they ask you how you know so much, and you think back on that great afternoon you spent with us and you smile. And then you lie and say you read a lot.
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As a bonus, there are alway snippets from my favorite series, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

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