Back in the good old days of Useless Info-mania, we used to run a regular column full of epic oddities sent in by our loyal, and slightly crazed, readers. And of course, when we use that expression, ...
I had hoped to write some prudent and pithy prose in this space, but then I came across an old email I’d squirreled away about 20 years ago. With great interest, I read it and decided it was much too ...
Welcome to the wonderfully absurd world of hilariously useless facts! You know those random tidbits that serve absolutely no practical purpose but somehow make you feel infinitely smarter and ...
Bruce Sutter's election to Cooperstown got our juices flowing. So it's time for a Hall of Fame edition of the Useless Information Department: USELESS HIT KING INFO Now that Pete Rose's days on the ...
Filtering out useless information can help people increase their capacity to remember what is really important, researchers said on Wednesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...
‘O mighty reservoir of useless information! Nothing about thee is more wonderful than this, that thou daredst to remain uneducated. Who shall say that thy supremacy among men is not due to thy being ...
Surely the Information Armageddon is at hand. In 1983 crusading-reporter-turned-journalism-professor Ben Bagdikian deplored the fact that 50 corporations controlled most of what Americans saw, heard, ...
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