March 19, 2024 0 The Problem with Customer Support Chatbots Fred Rogers, better known as “Mister Rogers” of the eponymous “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” said [...]
March 18, 2024 0 The Blind Man and the Armless Man Who Planted 10,000 Trees In the northeastern part of China, you’ll find a rural village called Yeli. (Here’s a map.) The Ye River [...]
March 15, 2024 0 Introducing Now I Know T-Shirts, Mugs, and Other Swag! Hi! Now I Know celebrates its 14th anniversary this year, and the email newsletter world has grown up a lot [...]
March 14, 2024 0 The Town Where It’s Fun to Be a Grouch The town of Readlyn, Iowa, is located in the northeastern-ish part of the state, about a two-and-a-half-hour [...]
March 12, 2024 0 The World’s Oldest Kindergartener For most of the 1950s, the area now known as Kenya was at war. The region was a British colony from the late [...]
March 11, 2024 0 The Endless “Africa” in Africa The Namib Desert is a roughly 160,000 km2 (62,000 square miles) expanse running down the western coast of [...]
March 8, 2024 0 I Asked an AI to Write This Newsletter Hi! I’ve been tinkering lately with Microsoft Copilot, a generative AI tool. It’s pretty good if you’re [...]
March 7, 2024 0 Why Peter Pan Needed a Dusting Peter Pan is an iconic children’s character — the boy who never grew up. You’re probably familiar with [...]
March 5, 2024 0 The Guy Who Flew to School The average American commute takes about 27 minutes, according to the U.S. Census. Given our morning rituals [...]
March 4, 2024 0 The Philadelphia Poison Plot With more than 1.5 million residents, Philadelphia is the fifth or sixth largest city (by population) in the [...]