Thought Provokers: Week of 7/8/2026

While it makes for good scenery, the trend of taking maternity photos in a field of tall grasses seems like a uniquely bad time to risk a tick bite.

The funniest thing about the Dunning-Kruger effect is that lots of people overestimate their ability to understand it correctly.

Music conductors probably get the closest to how it must feel to be a wizard casting a magnificent spell.

It is possible for a fluent English speaker with perfect vision to never learn the Latin alphabet and only learn Braille instead.

Mouse and rat claws look big compared to their toes. They’d be huge scaled up to humanoid size.

If AI were really as good as people think, people would be using it to get incredibly rich on sports betting. Creating an AI that is right only 60% of the time would make you millions.

Did New York ever change their locks after it gave Bill Cosby the key to the city?

Someone somewhere has a story where you’re just a random side character, and you’ll never hear it.

I realize that, growing up, I first learned about many parts of the world through the breed of dog that came from there... Dalmatian, Siberian husky, Labrador retriever, Lhasa apso...

There should be an alarm on your phone that goes off if you’re using your data when WiFi is available, so you don’t use it unnecessarily.

Buried emotions are not gone emotions ... they are just waiting.

I just really hope that grass tastes like chocolate cake for horses and goats.

They say if someone dies in a house, they become a ghost who haunts it and can never leave. So if you move the house, does the ghost stay with the house or the land?

Do you think some smaller animals worship us, giant humans, as gods?