Joel Brigham – Where Curiosity Meets Comedy

McDonald’s is crazy in so many ways.  That’s all the introduction you need… The unhealthiest thing on the menu is the 10-piece Chicken Selects strips, which has 1,270 calories, 590 of which are calories from fat. There are 66 grams of fat (12 saturated), 3100 grams of sodium, and 180 grams of cholesterol. Conversely, the [...]

We know that not all famous people get an easy road to fame and fortune, but some come right out of the gate with huge challenges to overcome.  The following is a list of people who, for some reason or another, lost their parents at a young age and were adopted by a new family.

There’s a new Chinese buffet in town, which means that my wife and I had no choice but to go, indulge, and thoroughly enjoy in all that authentic Asian cuisine. Those spreads are always so delicious, even if they do sit like a brick in your stomach and you always end up eating way more [...]

My students always balk when I tell them that Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” not only owned slaves but carried on an affair with one for 37 years. There’s a strong possibility that you just balked, too. But it is the truth, and it’s something that has [...]

I had no idea where cities like Denver and Sacramento and Boston got their names.  So I looked them up–all of them–and I’m passing that knowledge onto you.  Prepare to be educated… New York – Originally called “New Amsterdam” until it was taken over by the English in 1664, New York is named after James [...]