Posts by Noah Berman

It’s all about the fine print, people. Ignore those details at your peril. These tales from AskReddit users will have you reading over everything from now on with a magnifying glass. 1. Uh uh “My last restaurant job had a non competition clause in the new handbook. I pointed it out to coworkers, few signed,...

Ouch. You know these stories aren’t gonna be pretty…at all. People on AskReddit shared stories about bachelor parties that ultimately obliterated upcoming wedding plans. 1. The bachelorette “My wife’s friend called off her wedding a week before the ceremony. She lived several hundred miles away for school but came back to her hometown two weeks...

Running a restaurant is not easy. Food is a low margin industry, and restaurants in particular can be really tough. So, like any business, restauranteurs want to make sure that you spend as much of your money at their establishment as they possibly can – and they’ve gotten really good at it. Here are some...

Looks can be deceiving, especially in the animal kingdom. These 6 cuddly animals may look adorable, but don’t get too close: they can be deadly. 1. Koalas Photo Credit: iStock Koalas mostly keep to themselves and spend 22 hours a day sleeping, but sometimes they can snap and go after dogs and humans. And their...

For something that’s people have been doing for as long as there have been people, there is a surprising amount of confusion about pregnancy (and I’m not just talking about man-children who didn’t pay attention in sex-ed class). We (mostly) all know that sex leads to pregnancy, but once you’re actually there, baby-in-womb, well…at that...

Ever seen Silence of the Lambs? Or American Psycho? A Clockwork Orange? Pretty much any true crime documentary ever? Assuming you said yes to one of those, you’ve seen the way the media portrays psychopaths. Or, wait – sociopaths? Is Hannibal Lecter a sociopath or…? It’s confusing, right? There’s a reason you may not be totally clear on...

We live in a scary world – things are really bad these days, and it’s sometimes hard to see the good news. Good news like how violent crime in the United States fell nearly 50% from 1993 to 2016, or how the number of people globally living in extreme poverty fell ~74% from 1990-2015. Those...

Everyone is lonely sometimes; if it weren’t so universal, there wouldn’t be so many songs about it. If you move to a new city, or break up with your boyfriend, or lose a family member, you’ll probably feel lonely for a while. In fact, loneliness is a perfectly normal emotion – as long as it...

Pretty much everyone is stressed these days. It’s understandable; with the advent of social media and the 24-hour news cycle, we barely get a break from being inundated with information. Millennials can’t even imagine how much less stimulating it would have been to be alive 50 years ago because we’ve been stimulated to the gills...

The FBI wasn’t the first major law enforcement arm of the federal government, nor was it always the most important. In fact, the Postal Inspection Service is the oldest American federal law enforcement agency; it can trace its roots back to 1772. The FBI didn’t bust onto the scene until 1908 (back then it was...

You know the feeling. April 1st passes you by, and just when you think you’ve escaped your friends’ pranks, you walk right into the cruelest joke of all – the American tax system. Our system of taxation is famously complicated. So complicated, in fact, that an entire industry has sprung up around helping us make...

Ever since the Columbine mass shooting in 1999, myths about the negative social impacts of video games have really exploded into the public consciousness. But video games are a new media, relatively speaking, and up until pretty recently there really wasn’t that much research looking at how they actually affect people. They are easy to...

There are a million quizzes online nowadays that purport to tell you whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, but, honestly, it’s not that hard to tell. I see a lot of generalizations about either category – extroverts are all “social butterflies” and introverts are all “over-analyzers” – but the main difference between an introvert...

Think way back to grade school social studies, or history, or geography – whichever class you took where there was a world map hanging on the wall. Do you remember looking at it and thinking, “Dang, Greenland is huge”? Or, “It doesn’t look so far to get from Texas down to South America”? Well, you’re...

Some riddles are easy, some are hard, and others are designed to make you think they’re easy but are really tricky once you dig in. These 5 are the latter, so pat yourself on the back if you can solve them all! #5. Across the river. Continue reading when you’re ready to check your answer!