September 29, 2025 0 A Bench You Can’t Sit On? Pictured above is a screenshot from Google Maps’ Street View feature from August 2015. The location seen is [...]
September 26, 2025 0 Why Curiosity Matters I’ve been thinking a lot about curiosity lately. When I first decided to create an online course, “The [...]
September 25, 2025 0 The Illusionist Who Made a Pokémon Disappear In 1996, video game designer Satoshi Tajiri introduced Pokémon to the world. His first creation, a Nintendo [...]
September 22, 2025 0 The Tale of the Ring, According to Sauron If you haven’t read The Lord of the Rings or watched the movie adaptations, you’re missing out — the [...]
September 19, 2025 0 Ask Me Anything! Hi! Please join me on reddit, right now, for a Now I Know “Ask Me Anything.” Click here to join! That’s [...]
September 18, 2025 0 That’s a Lot of Speeding Tickets The Italian village of Acquetico sits in the region of Liguria (here’s a map), but Acquetico is easy to [...]
September 16, 2025 0 Why The Dot Got Dashed Pictured above is the front page of the New York Times from February 20, 1967. The headlines aren’t [...]
September 15, 2025 0 A Pet for a Pet? Humans, like most animals, have a survival instinct. When we’re in danger, our adrenaline kicks in and we [...]
September 12, 2025 0 Curiously Asked Questions Hi! As you know, I just announced my new course, “The Curiosity Habit: 14 Days to See the World [...]
September 11, 2025 0 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Being Too Nice In 1887, British author Arthur Conan Doyle published “A Study in Scarlet,” a novel featuring a detective [...]