April 16, 2020 0 Raiders of the Lost Journal In the 1920s, an Egyptologist named Abner Ravenwood began recording his research in a journal. He drew [...]
April 14, 2020 0 The Dot in Your Kitchen You’ve Probably Never Noticed If you have a minute, go into your kitchen right and look for an aerosol can — cooking spray, oven [...]
April 13, 2020 0 Kings and Queens are Royals. But What’s a Jack? Open up just about any deck of cards (sorry, pinochle!) and you’ll find the same thing — 52 [...]
April 6, 2020 0 Why Mario Has a Mustache Pictured above is, perhaps, the most iconic video game character ever created. It’s Mario, of course, [...]
April 3, 2020 0 Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Monopoly Hi! In the March 13, 2020 Weekender, I made a passing reference at the end to Monopoly — and not [...]
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 [...]