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1) “My Childhood in a Cult” (The New Yorker, 17 minutes, April 2019). “Where are you from?” [...]

If your car is making an unexpected noise, that’s often the sign of a problem. Perhaps it’s a [...]

In the mid-1300s, the Black Death ravaged Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East and neighboring parts [...]

Monopoly, as I’ve mentioned before, is a terrible board game. The rules are complicated and often make [...]

In most parts of the world, if your car is stolen, the police will take some meaningful efforts to try to [...]

Pictured above is a building from Southampton, England. It has a lot of windows — there are seven (plus [...]

There are lots of advantages to living in an apartment building, sure, but there are also some disadvantages, [...]

1) “Are X-Men (Legally) Human?” Another installment of the Now I Know YouTube channel is up! If [...]

Pictured above, snapped in half, is a Kit Kat bar. That’s probably not quite an accurate image [...]