Frederic Yarm (aka fyarm)

Why Chess Should Be Required in U.S. Schools

It’s a game that motivates us to win, but also teaches us how to deal with defeat.

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Straight Men Respond to: "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends" - YouTube

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The History of Trench Warfare

The fighting for the Man part -- capture enemies or suffer casualties as proof you weren't slacking on the job -- is a good allegory for peacetime life.

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Fighting Like a Girl - The History of Women's Sport Fighting

One of the best parts was putting coins in their hands to reduce foul tactics like hair pulling, eye clawing, and other scratching.

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A book review of the history of Drinking in Boston.

Everything from pre-Prohibition sports bars to Prohibition era speakeasies and mobsters to the modern brewing, distilling, and craft cocktail movements in Beantown.

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You're Doing It Wrong: Arm Wresting

Pointers on the manly art of arm wrestling.

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Drink and Tell: A Boston Cocktail Book

Or how I spent 4 months of my unemployment writing up recipes I collected at bars around town over the last 5-6 years that capture the cocktail renaissance in Boston. The link is for Barnes & Noble, but it is at Amazon too: http://www.amazon.com/Drink-Tell-Boston-Cocktail-Book/dp/0988281805

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Pedestrian Penalty Cards

Things to hand out when people on the street annoy you, although it could be turned into a BINGO like game.

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The 10 Geekiest Burlesque Performances

From Star Wars to superheroes. Burlesque at its nerdiest.

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20 Bizarre Examples Of Medieval Marginalia

Scribes of medieval texts got bored and made some cheeky and perverted drawings in these handwritten books. "Inappropriate rabbit" and "An amputee brawl" are but two of the 20.