Round the Square

WOMEN: Recent research estimates that women are represented in only about half of a percent of recorded history. The Representation Project spotlights...

AWARE: What do peanuts, celery, umbrellas, noodles, breast implants and athletic training have in common? What a question! The answer is the month of ...

CAT & MOUSE: This year, the slapstick antics and never-ending chase of cartoons Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse turned 85. The duo was created by William Hann...

CLASS: The Antique Automobile Club of America is welcoming the Class of 2000 as antiques. Really. The club defines antique as a vehicle 25 years of ag...

STUDY: A study tracking four-year trends has found that McKean County has seen the biggest drop in single-parent households in Pennsylvania, while Cam...

MONDAY: This coming Monday is an important day in the U.S. It’s not one that closes the postal service or banks, but it’s one that we could argue is j...

SIZE: It’s pretty early in life when children learn the difference between things that are big and small. Yet there are some things in life that are j...

TIDBITS: A few readers have reached out recently to share some tidbits. We’ll relay the not-so-good item first. It just so happens that today, March 6...

MONTH: March is Women’s History Month. The first Presidential Proclamation declaring it so came from President Jimmy Carter in 1980. On social media, ...

LATIN: Did you learn Latin in school? So many of us didn’t, and we were surprised at the number of Latin terms co-opted into the English language. Som...

AUCTION: Is the discerning artist in you just itching for a unique painting by a capy-ble artist? Maybe a slowly created work of art by a sloth? How a...

WORDS: Well isn’t he a snollygoster! Words such as this might cause me to cachinnate. Befuddled? Don’t be. A snollygoster is a shrewd, unprincipled pe...

TRILLION: We recently heard from a reader who’s been enthused with our ’Round the Squares lately. Ken Gerg enjoyed the RTS where we gave some context ...

LURKING: Just what is lurking in the maze of sewer lines running underground? In Florida, a team of researchers from the University of Florida found “...

MUPPETS: In the continuing celebration of 70 years of The Muppets, a recent feature was Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Ph.D., Esq., Incomp., C.S.I.C.O.E. (Chief...

BIRDS: A Shinglehouse reader had a connection to a story in the Feb. 11 edition of The Era. The story, called “Mad at your ex?” was about the Love Hur...

GUIDE: Searching for unique, locally crafted products and services? Do you value and want to support artists and entrepreneurs based in the Pennsylvan...

COLD: Brrrr. It’s been a chilly one this winter. Despite the frozen pipes, slippery roads and icy sidewalks, health experts say cold weather isn’t all...

QUESTIONS: While we pondered a random question recently — when you cut a sandwich in half, is it half a sandwich or simply a sandwich of a smaller siz...

PERSPECTIVE: Just how big is a billion? We see in the news folks like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and many others — a total ...