UK shoppers are predicted to spend an average of £544 each this Christmas. US shoppers will fork over $862 apiece. But why do we give gifts at Christmas, anyway? Contrary to what the naysayers would have you believe, presents at Christmas are NOT an invention of Toys ‘R’ Us. The…
My phone kicked the bucket. I wish I had a juicy story about it. That it had a rough night out, or was hacked by Russian nogoodniks, or – at the very least – that I dropped it unceremoniously in the toilet. But no. It just died. One minute, I…
I stumbled across the word dactylion the other day, and I suddenly found myself curious about other unusual words for parts of the human body. I was never lucky enough to take an anatomy class in high school, so diving into the linguistic world of body bits was a voyage of…
Spooky-ooky October! What a great month to have a birthday. It’s the time of year when the temperatures have truly dropped at last, and everyone’s winter things are still fresh from the closet. Deciduous trees are in full rainbow splendor, too. October pea coats have everyone and their mother looking…
We made Curious Postcards for the people that love us. All of the original artwork across the postcards comes straight from our talented in-house designers. They’re a collection of the posts on our Facebook page that our fans loved the most. All 81,614 of them As such, we’re sending them…
Most of the records from days of yore come through in black and white. Colour photography didn’t become popular until the mid-20th century, which gives us the impression that everything that came before then was rather drab. Pre-photography records only come in whatever physical artifacts have managed to weather the…
What does it mean to be born in September? Are September babies as prone to change as the season they were born into? Do they especially love a cookout? I’ve already dug deep into what’s wonderful about the children of June, July, and August. Onwards and upwards, to September we…
During August, we’ve all been prepping like mad for our upcoming campaign in Glasgow, which will hit the streets of Scotland’s largest city next week. It’s the first time we ever dabble in non-digital marketing, so it’s at once exciting and just a wee bit terrifying. Will Glaswegians like all…
“Eponymous” comes from the Ancient Greek “epṓnumos,” made of “epí” (upon) and “ónuma” (name). Quite simply, it means that something is named after a person. Many terms like this are quite obvious, like Victorian, Fahrenheit, and Freudian slip. But here’s a list of words you’d never guess have their origins…
