Disqualifying the positive is a kind of cognitive distortion where you explain away good things that happen because they don't fit into your *grand unified theory of negativity* — but it's a little more nuanced than that.

NOTE: This episode was originally recorded in 2018, but it felt like a fitting way to end this era of the show...for updates on our hiatus follow host @abbymnorman on Instagram!

"There was malice in the thrust," — NYT report c. 1906 on aggressive confetti throwing.

We have to announce some stuff. Follow us on Instagram for updates!

LMGT: https://www.instagram.com/letmegooglethat/

Abby's personal IG: https://www.instagram.com/abbymnorman/

A product's "lifetime warranty" refers to its expected lifetime — not yours.

Fed up with "monobosom," Caresse Crosby (aka Mary Phelps Jacobs/Polly Jacobs) received the first U.S. patent for the "brassiere" in early November of 1914. She also ghostwrote , founded the press that published Bukowski, & had a dog named "Clytoris."

"Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression: "What in 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?!" "Good 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!" & "Moral 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚." But how do words become "fossilized" & how long does it take?

Thanksgiving is coming and it's a great time for infection-prevention trivia to share 'round the table? So, we wanted to know: can sterling silver really keep itself germ-free?

Like many great inventions, Silly String was an accident: it was meant to be spray-on casts.