Mental_Floss
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If you're searching for some good and interesting
online reading material, the blog Mental_Floss is your holy grail. The website is updated daily with new quizzes, stories, "top ten" facts about different topics and much more.
The topic choices of this site are what make it unique. Bypassing the standard topics like "Hot Summer Movies" or "Great Beaches in Mexico," Mental_Floss appeals to the more intellectual web surfers. True to its motto, "where knowledge junkies get their fix," any reader who spends even ten minutes on the site is sure to log off with two or three genuinely interesting facts.
Every day there are a few daily additions. Sure to appear: your "morning cup of links," where the links guide you to interesting websites and articles. Also, there's the "lunchtime quiz," with wacky themes such as "Ben and Jerry's flavor, or band I found on Myspace?" and of course the "5 p.m. quiz" is not to be missed, along with the daily number (today's is 54), where you learn new facts related to the number. The less common articles are in simple list form, like "13 Hitchcock Films that Were Never Made" or "14 Quirky College Donations and the Strings Attached." The focus of the articles are often about history, or something that happened in history. Others tell funny stories, while more report about obscure (but still fascinating) current events.
In addition to being a website, Mental_Floss is also a magazine! The subscriptions are pretty cheap — around 20 dollars for a year's subscription. The magazine has all-new and longer articles and also looks great on a coffee table.
Any internet user can go to Mental_Floss, there's no offensive or inappropriate material. Come to think of it, not only CAN every internet user go here, every user SHOULD go here.
The address is www.mentalfloss.com, check it out! You're sure to learn some new facts to impress your friends.
online reading material, the blog Mental_Floss is your holy grail. The website is updated daily with new quizzes, stories, "top ten" facts about different topics and much more.
The topic choices of this site are what make it unique. Bypassing the standard topics like "Hot Summer Movies" or "Great Beaches in Mexico," Mental_Floss appeals to the more intellectual web surfers. True to its motto, "where knowledge junkies get their fix," any reader who spends even ten minutes on the site is sure to log off with two or three genuinely interesting facts.
Every day there are a few daily additions. Sure to appear: your "morning cup of links," where the links guide you to interesting websites and articles. Also, there's the "lunchtime quiz," with wacky themes such as "Ben and Jerry's flavor, or band I found on Myspace?" and of course the "5 p.m. quiz" is not to be missed, along with the daily number (today's is 54), where you learn new facts related to the number. The less common articles are in simple list form, like "13 Hitchcock Films that Were Never Made" or "14 Quirky College Donations and the Strings Attached." The focus of the articles are often about history, or something that happened in history. Others tell funny stories, while more report about obscure (but still fascinating) current events.
In addition to being a website, Mental_Floss is also a magazine! The subscriptions are pretty cheap — around 20 dollars for a year's subscription. The magazine has all-new and longer articles and also looks great on a coffee table.
Any internet user can go to Mental_Floss, there's no offensive or inappropriate material. Come to think of it, not only CAN every internet user go here, every user SHOULD go here.
The address is www.mentalfloss.com, check it out! You're sure to learn some new facts to impress your friends.