1847: The year we figured out washing our hands could prevent disease. tedium.co/2020/04/27/ignaz-semmelw... #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

Let’s talk about con artists. https://tedium.co/2020/04/20/con-artists-nature/ #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

On human nature and mimicry. (We tend to copy others.) https://tedium.co/2020/03/30/human-nature-copying/ #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

In my efforts to largely make Tedium an oasis from coronavirus news, here’s a syndicated @ConversationUS about Crisco. https://tedium.co/2020/03/23/crisco-marketing-history/ #DailyTedium

Why do people hoard toilet paper, specifically? https://tedium.co/2020/03/16/toilet-paper-hoarding/ #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

Daylight doesn’t need saving. tedium.co/2020/03/09/year-round-da... #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

Let’s talk about invisibility, because it’s not like you can see it anyway. https://tedium.co/2020/03/01/film-invisibility-history/ #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

A fresh #DailyTedium syndication: How romance comics were having a moment at the same time superhero comics were. https://tedium.co/2020/02/16/romance-comics-history/ (via @ConversationUS)

You might think you’re a Gemini, but maybe you’re not. Maybe our Zodiac signs have been wrong this whole time. https://tedium.co/2020/02/08/zodiac-sign-mismatch/ #DailyTedium via @ConversationUS

How are woodpeckers able to beat their heads against a block of wood for so long without hurting themselves—and what can it teach us about CTE? tedium.co/2020/01/31/woodpeckers-a... #DailyTedium

REVIEW: The Phone Relief hands-free system helps you go hands-free while making you look like a total goober in the process. tedium.co/2018/11/15/phone-relief-... #DailyTedium

Remember the Philips CD-i? @DFrank does. And it's all thanks to an odd encounter with Otis Nixon of the '92 Atlanta @Braves. His first person tale on @readtedium: tedium.co/2018/10/09/otis-nixon-th... #DailyTedium

Yay, I did a #DailyTedium! I wanted to get some thoughts down about an awesome-but-doomed effort to make Duck Hunt work on modern TV sets. A nod to you, Modern Mallard. https://tedium.co/2018/07/17/duck-hunt-modern-mallard/

I wrote a whole piece about why Unsolved Mysteries is a new old experience in 2018. tedium.co/2018/06/19/unsolved-myst... #DailyTedium

Dear California gubernatorial candidate (and puppeteer) Chris Carlson: Please run for president, thanks. tedium.co/2018/06/05/chris-carlson... #DailyTedium

In which I argue that we should boycott @LiveNation and @Ticketmaster until it properly distributes those free tickets in that class-action settlement. tedium.co/2018/05/01/ticketmaster-... #DailyTedium #NationalConcertWeek

I wrote a review of @BF_Movie, part 1. Sample: "Given the right script, as he is here, [Wiseau] can carry a film with the kind of eccentric energy seen in stars like Christopher Walden and Crispin Glover." tedium.co/2018/04/02/best-friends-... #DailyTedium

Tonight's #DailyTedium talks about some important new academic research into the ways that human beings press buttons. https://tedium.co/2018/03/21/button-pressing-study/ cc @mwichary

Being the diligent pop-culture digger he is, @saltyasparagus1 has ANOTHER piece about Oingo Boingo tonight. It's nerdy in a different way. tedium.co/2018/03/14/oingo-boingo-... #DailyTedium

For my latest #DailyTedium piece, I make a case that 1989 was alt-rock's weirdest year, and point out the unlikely success of Adrian Belew's "Oh Daddy" as evidence. https://tedium.co/2018/03/12/adrian-belew-oh-daddy/

Do we use half a billion straws a day? An odd problem with a widely cited stat: tedium.co/2018/03/05/plastic-straw... #DailyTedium

Just wrote a #DailyTedium piece that makes a controversial argument: Newspapers should use the end of "Nancy" and the death of Mort Walker to spend some time rethinking their funny pages. tedium.co/2018/02/19/newspaper-fun...

For my latest #DailyTedium, I want to discuss an album that's become really important to me in the past few months—Ernest Hood's "Neighborhoods." Here's its story. https://tedium.co/2018/02/13/ernest-hood-neighborhoods/

Why MagSafe is the greatest racket Apple ever pulled on its consumers. tedium.co/2018/02/06/apple-magsafe... #DailyTedium

This is the world’s greatest canine model. Chico, you are perfect in every way. https://tedium.co/2018/01/29/chico-stock-photo-dog/ #DailyTedium x.com/ShortFormErnie/status/95...

My latest #DailyTedium piece ponders whether the Razzies, based on this year’s painfully obvious nominations, aren’t built for the streaming era. tedium.co/2018/01/22/the-razzies-l...

Tonight’s #DailyTedium comes from @andrewe323, who wrote all about the joy of beer nuts. https://tedium.co/2018/01/17/beer-nuts-history/

As I point out in #DailyTedium, "Zombie" by The Cranberries is the second-most-watched video in YouTube history that was created before the year 2000. https://tedium.co/2018/01/15/cranberries-zombie-legacy/

If a lotto system makes an error, should the lottery have to pay out? An interesting ethical question in South Carolina. tedium.co/2018/01/04/lottery-error... #DailyTedium

My first #DailyTedium of 2018 has a provocative title: "Is Blogging Dead?" https://tedium.co/2018/01/01/is-blogging-dead-2018/