December 14, 2017 0 The Worthless $65 Million Masterpiece That Cost $29 Million The work of art pictured above, called Canyon, was created by American painter Robert Rauschenberg in 1959. [...]
December 13, 2017 0 Help Me Bring Education to Children in Need Today’s my birthday — a milestone one at that. And I’m taking the day off. (You’ll [...]
December 12, 2017 0 The Town That Pays Criminals to Cut it Out Richmond, California is just a few miles north of San Francisco. It’s home to just over 100,000 people, [...]
December 11, 2017 0 How NASA (Almost) Got Its Rock Bag Back A trip to the moon is expensive — so much so, that we don’t bother doing it anymore. As a result, [...]
December 8, 2017 0 The Weekender from Now I Know Happy Friday! It’s time for another Weekender edition of Now I Know, where I share some long reads or [...]
December 7, 2017 0 Why Women’s Shirts Button Backward We live in a world made for righties. Only about 10-15% of the population is left-handed; as a result, [...]
December 5, 2017 0 The Problem With Five-Cent Hot Dogs On May 28, 2016, Nathan’s Famous — the iconic hot dog vendor — celebrated their 100th [...]
December 4, 2017 0 The Surprising Way to Get Rejected In 1968, novelist Jerzy Kosiński wrote his second book, Steps. It received a good amount of critical [...]
December 1, 2017 0 The Weekender, December 1, 2017 1) “Requiem for the Mall ” (Popular Mechanics, 18 minutes, November 2017). Thanks to Craig S. for [...]
November 29, 2017 0 The Municipal Pooper Scooper Lottery New Taipei City — not to be confused with Taipei — is the most populous city in Taiwan, with [...]