It’s very easy to have a knowledge of Animal Kingdom on a very superficial level. You go to your local zoo, you see the zebras, and you think you know something. If you’re a regular viewer of Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel, you might feel a little bit superior to the rubes who called themselves the next Steve Irwin. Unfortunately, neither of these groups truly compare to the real hobbyists. Do you know the kinds of people we can look at a prehistoric fish thing and tell you it’s genus,…

Spongebob is one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time. He has served as the unofficial mascot for Nickelodeon for over two decades and has filled our lives with laughter for just as long. Spongebob SquarePants is one of those shows with humor that will hold up for generations. It's the perfect kind of kid's show that keeps the young ones entertained but with enough wit and humor to have fully grown adults in stitches. The episodes are endlessly rewatchable (at least up to Season 3)…

Eddie might've hated the Chrissy situation, but he'd totally love these memes.

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The biggest blessing of all

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Not shy, just not interested

Everyone finds their little way to rebel as a teenager. There was one point in 6th grade where my eyeliner was so black, thick, and around every crevice of my eyeball that it looked like I was about to put on a raccoon Halloween costume at any moment. Being a rebel becomes a less attainable identity when you're a fully grown adult. Things that were once deemed unacceptable and strange by your parents become much more normal. Like what, you're in your twenties and regularly frequent your local D…

There are a lot of jobs out there that people don't take seriously. Jobs that may seem easy to an outsider, like free money. But we would wager that nobody on Earth has ever said teaching is easy. Because it's not. Insanely early mornings, hours grading papers and creating lesson plans, and spending your own money on supplies are just a few of the constant joys that educators have to look forward to. And we can't forget the charms of entitled and deluded parents who think their children are God…

Sometimes existence feels completely pointless. You know, life's a b*tch and then you die type stuff. It really does feel as though we're meant to struggle, living paycheck to paycheck, while some person who says “yes” or “no” lives richly thanks to our hard work. While we try not to think of the sad reality, it has become increasingly hard to ignore. But when the going gets tough, and reality begins crushing our poor, sad, little brains, we have to turn to humor to turn things around in our mi…

Oh you don't like these memes? Bet you don't like choppers and Metallica either, nerd!

As a nearly-constant internet user, I often wonder how much reading I do that's just on the internet. Sure, I might not read as much daily as I did when I was an English major, but these tweets and Tumblr posts have got to count for something, right? Allegedly, we read completely differently when using technology versus merely reading on paper. According to research, we skim more when reading online than in a paper book, even when reading e-books or PDFs of scanned book pages. I will admit that…

For many people, food is the only thing that brings them pleasure. That faction of human beings includes me. While I'm eating lunch, I'm thinking about what's for dinner. I spend hours walking through supermarket aisles, definitely not under the influence of a smokeable plant, dreaming about the meals I can make with all the beautiful and fresh ingredients. Sadly, inflation has drastically changed my grocery-buying abilities. Come on, people. Blueberries should not cost $9.99. The sheer cost of…

I don't know about you, but I am both fortunately and unfortunately old enough to remember a place and time before the world wide web. A simpler time, a time when you had to find humor in joke books, terrible TV sitcoms, inside jokes with old pals, the funnies, and good old fashioned farts . When I was a child, my insane friends and I would invent strange and completely nonsensical words and repeat them over and over again until the gibberish finally became hilarious. There's no denying it: we'…

When I was a child I would spend hours staring at my father's (and my grandfather's) thick Audubon Field Guide to North American Birds. The book was textured on the outside, almost like snakeskin, and the interior was filled with birds, arranged beautifully by color. I had only seen a few of the avian creatures - the usual Northern Cardinal, chickadees, sparrows and jays that frequented my grandparents' bird feeder. My life has become way more bird-centric since then. I play a board game called…

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