April 2, 2020 0 Putting a Happy Face On Trash For many cities, garbage is an unyielding problem. We make a lot of it and often, there’s nowhere for [...]
April 1, 2020 0 Badminton’s Sinister Secret Badminton is a sport that, for many, is an informal summertime outdoor activity. You string a net across a [...]
March 30, 2020 0 The Problem With Invisible Stone Boogers As the saying goes: You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s [...]
March 27, 2020 0 The Weekender, March 27, 2020 Hi! I’m sure for many of you — if not most of you — the last week or so has been [...]
March 26, 2020 0 Why Does It Feel So Weird To Walk on a Stopped Escalator? The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once observed that “an escalator can never break: it can only become [...]
March 24, 2020 0 The Grass With … Less Gas? There are many dangers in life, way too many to list here. But let’s pick a few anyway. Don’t [...]
March 23, 2020 0 Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Crazy Address Will Prevent The Mail Delivery In the early 1990s, I made a bet with my brother. I don’t remember, exactly, what the bet was over [...]
March 20, 2020 0 The Weekender, March 20, 2020 Hi! Thank you, again, for joining me for another week of Now I Know. Now I Know’s tenth birthday is [...]
March 19, 2020 0 To Boldly Go Where You’re Really Not Allowed To Go Space, according to Star Trek, is “the final frontier.” Over the course of multiple series and [...]
March 17, 2020 0 Harry Potter and the Need for Fewer Casts In June of 1997, the world changed for the better — “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [...]