December 20, 2024 0 It’s Not Too Late to Help People Read Hi! A few things today, with Christmas next week: First, as I shared last Friday, I’m raising money for [...]
December 17, 2024 0 How To Eat Your Way Out of a Fantasy Football Loss In August and into early September of every year, groups of people in America — typically men — gather to [...]
December 16, 2024 0 The Angel of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge The Chinese city of Nanjing is home to about 9.3 million people, making it the 13th most populous city in the [...]
December 13, 2024 0 Help Me Empower People to Help Themselves Hi! I’m celebrating a non-milestone birthday today and, as I’ve done in years past, I’m asking you to [...]
December 10, 2024 0 The Worst TV Show in Broadcast History? In the late 1960s, American television executives Digby Wolfe and George Schlatter were on the verge of TV [...]
December 9, 2024 0 The Hotel Room With a Unique View The Spanish island of Ibiza sits in the Mediterranean Sea, about 150 km (90 miles) off the eastern coast of [...]
December 6, 2024 0 The Weekender, December 6, 2024 Hi! It’s been a busy week for me and I don’t have a lot to share. One mea culpa though — Wednesday’s [...]
December 5, 2024 0 Another Brick in the Nose If you have little kids or have ever been around a little kid, you’ve probably seen this in action: the kid [...]
December 3, 2024 0 The Famous Symbol with the Hidden N and D You’re probably familiar with the symbol pictured above. It’s the peace symbol, a widely-used shorthand [...]
December 2, 2024 0 The Temperature You Can Hear? Imagine you have in front of you a mug of water. You look at it, and you can’t tell if it’s hot or cold. [...]