A fairly recent addition to the Fairmount Library’s magazine collection, Mental Floss is

…an intelligent read, but not too intelligent. We’re the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, smile a lot and then we part ways. Great times. And you only realize how much you learned from us after a little while…

Recent articles:

• “3 Extreme Ways to Go Green”
• “Actually, It IS Rocket Science: NASA’s Brilliant, Far-Out History”
• “Waropoly: How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend the Free World”
• “10 Songs that Changed the World”

Remember, you can check out magazines from the library, including the current issue, for one week.