Funny Moments of Failure From Print News

I hate to admit it, but it’s true: writers make mistakes. Despite the fact that I feel terrible shame when I realize I’ve made a dumb typo or made an unfortunate word choice, I still revel a bit when I see that other wordsmiths have done the same – especially when its in a well-respected …
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A Load Of Unfortunate Incidents That Really, Really Suck

Try as we might, not everything in life goes according to plan. At any given time, there are an infinite number of possibilities of things that could go wrong. No matter how hard we work to keep things on track, we never know what’s going to be just around the corner.  Sometimes, this is a …
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Funny & Fail-Filled Moments From Print News

It’s true: writers make mistakes. Despite the fact that I feel terrible shame when I realize I’ve made atypo or used an unfortunate word choice, I still revel a bit when I see that other wordsmiths have done the same – especially when its in a well-respected publication such as the New York Times or …
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Humor-Filled Moments of Mortified People Dying Inside

Before the internet, we had America’s Funniest Home Videos. Now we’ve got YouTube and r/WatchPeopleDieInside. As time plods along, the world inevitably changes, but some things stay the same—like our enduring capacity as humans to humiliate ourselves. Animals can totally make themselves look like fools, but at least they have a good excuse. Yup, we …
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Miraculous Times Lucky People Dodged A Bullet

Is one’s life just a series of random and chaotic events, or are there underlying patterns that determine the things that happen to us? In the late 1050s, Meteorologist Edward Lorenz was skeptical of linear statistical models of meteorology and pioneered weather and climate predictability through his discovery of deterministic chaos—the theory that though chaotic …
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