Batman Painting Once Traded For Comics Sells For $173,000
Bill Steinfelt traded comic books for a painting of Batman in 1962. The painting, by Mel Ramos, just sold at auction for $173,000.
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Roll The Dice
Contestants identify popular board games based on 1-star Amazon reviews.
Trick Or Tweet
In this game, we read two outrageous celebrity tweets — one's real, the other fake. Then contestants choose the correct set of 140 characters.
Musical Re-enactments
Pat Benatar sang about the toughest combat zone in her hit, "Love Is A Battlefield." But we've rewritten the lyrics to describe historic battles. All together now! "Waterloo is a Battlefield."
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell thinks "it's about dog-gone time" that horror is mainstreaming━and so do his fans.
Flip It And Reverse It #2
In our nerdy homage to Missy Elliot, every answer is a famous title or phrase, backwards.
Bring Out Your Undead
We asked our audience questions about how they would handle the end of the world. Then we put VIPs and undead experts Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless head-to-head to guess our audience's responses.
Art For Art's Sake
Smartphone, pop-tarts and kickstarter. All of these answers have the letters a-r-t in order. Our final round is deceivingly simple as that!
Comparing Presidential Candidates' Language To Books In 'The New York Times'
Josh Katz discusses his most recent graphic "Matching Candidates With Books They Sound Like" for "The Upshot" in The New York Times. The piece compared the speaking styles of different presidential candidates to word choices in popular books based on how complex, positive or negative the candidates' speeches are.
Why Are Old Women Often The Face Of Evil In Fairy Tales And Folklore?
Evil stepmothers, witches and crones: When they aren't poisoning princesses, they're mangling mermaids or trying to eat children. One writer traces these villains' roots to a fear of female power.