Strange New Year’s traditions around the world.

Advice from 1862: How to tell your fortune for the new year.

Your complete guide to the science of hangovers, the anatomy of a hangover, and twelve hangover cures from famous heavy drinkers. Related: your word of the day (from the Horologicon) is philogrobolized (adj.): “Conveys a hangover without ever having to admit you’ve been drinking.” Used in a sentence: “Pedialyte freezer pops can save even the most philogrobized partier.”

Why we sing “Auld Lang Syne“ on New Year’s Eve, and here’s Mark Steyn singing and explaining “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”

Speaking of Mark Steyn, here are his New Year’s links.

Eat your heart out, New York: Boise, Idaho, drops a giant potato downtown on New Year’s Eve.

Here’s Dave Barry’s Year in Review; previous such columns are available here.

A healthy, prosperous, and altogether excellent 2015 to you and yours from me and mine!