Thought Provokers: 10/8/2025

There are probably more planes in the ocean than submarines.

Do you think animals get frustrated, too, when a sneeze just doesn’t follow through for them?

It’s popular knowledge that the save icon is a skeuomorphism of a floppy disk, but we don’t often think about how the name “floppy disk” refers to that 3.5-inch disk, which is already a skeuomorphism referring to the older, actually floppy disks.

At restaurants, we are asked how long we’d like our meat cooked, but never how long we'd like our vegetables cooked.

The money that IKEA spends on including wall-mounting brackets for furniture is e...