There are many ways to choose the best-ever line from seven hugely quotable seasons of Mad Men. You could pick a salient passage from the Draper Doctrine of market-driven nihilism. You could open a pot of Sterling’s Gold. You could tap a maple on a cold Vermont morning or tap a bowl with Peggy Olson. But if you ask this viewer, the honor belongs to Sterling Cooper veteran Freddy Rumsen, who, in the Season 5 episode “The Other Woman,” gave copywriter Peggy Olson a rousing directive to show Don that she’s “not some secretary from Brooklyn who’s dyin’ to help out.”
There are many ways to choose the best-ever line from seven hugely quotable seasons of Mad Men. You could pick a salient passage from the Draper Doctrine of market-driven nihilism. You could open a pot of Sterling’s Gold. You could tap a maple on a cold Vermont morning or tap a bowl with Peggy Olson. But if you ask this viewer, the honor belongs to Sterling Cooper veteran Freddy Rumsen, who, in the Season 5 episode “The Other Woman,” gave copywriter Peggy a rousing directive to show Don that she’s “not some secretary from Brooklyn who’s dyin’ to help out.”
Antlions create a conical trap in soil not unlike Star Wars’ notorious sarlacc pit, trapping ants on an unstable slope and dragging them to their doom. Entomologists at the University of Illinois in Urbana studied the ants’ unlikely defense mechanism with high-speed video, and the results are incredible.
The jurors in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial sped through the questions that decided his fate at the rate of three or more an hour—about enough time to read the question out, take a vote, count the hands, and move on to the next question. Most important, though, the jury appeared to agree unanimously that the 19 mitigating factors proposed by the defense made no difference. If even one juror had found it impossible for any reason to vote for the death penalty, Tsarnaev would have been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing.
