It's supposed to be for smart people!

This one's from mental_floss Blog:

In practice, this means that computers gets faster, cheaper, fast…and this doubling gets out of control very quickly.

I'm sure everyone who went to 5th-grade English class learned enough to make sure subject and verb agree in form.

Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/29810

From mental_floss

A highly entertaining article on its own merit, this "Weird Week in Review" from mental_floss is not without errors:

The blob was first observed neat Wainwright and moved toward Barrow, where samples were collected for testing.

Surfers at Gilgo Beach on Long Island found 20-foot shark lying on the beach Tuesday.

Looks like someone forgot how to use articles!

Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/29171

Did you know that...?

mental_floss (and yes, the official name is all lower-case) recently posted an interesting article on uncommon sports rules. It contained this error:

Pitchers rely on the rosin bag to keep their hands try for an optimal grip on the ball, and MLB rules strictly monitor the use of the rosin bag.

Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25042

Name, please?

Special care should be taken when giving names in a post. As these may or may not be common words, writers should be careful to input the name correctly. The following is taken from a post on Mental_floss:

Part of your challenge on Day 3 was to listen to excerpts from Holts’s The Planets.

Of course, this is referring to musician Gustav Holst, to whom Mental_floss correctly referred in several earlier posts.

Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24107#more-24107

Even smart people make mistakes...

Mental_floss touts itself as the place "Where knowledge junkies get their fix." Even so, they didn't know there was an '-ed' missing in the following sentence:

On this page a color is mention that begins with the 13th letter of the alphabet.

Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/HDYK/hdyk15/hdyk15_d1aclue.htm