Everybody’s called it. Everybody’s contested it. Everybody’s also eaten it, played games with it, read about it, and even bought chocolate milk with it. Dibs is more than a quick way to stake a claim on something, it’s an old word with some surprisingly twisted origins. Dibs as we didn’t know it Dibs appeared in […]

Not much of a name for one of the oldest board games ever discovered, is it? 20 Squares is closely related to the Game of Ur, Senet and Asseb, and may be little more than a variation of those games. It predates the earliest versions of chess by nearly 3,000 years, with the oldest find […]

Humans win Earth’s evolution trophy. Some animals go for size, speed, or camouflage to make it to the top. We went with brains, and it totally worked. Proof: A human is writing this blog post, not a tapir. Take that, every other animal. Just because we’re “a-ok number one species” doesn’t mean we win in […]