February 4, 2019 0 Why You Couldn’t Watch the First Super Bowl Last night, the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams faced off in Super Bowl LIII — that’s [...]
February 1, 2019 0 The Weekender, February 1, 2019 1) “Stealing from the dead” (Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News, 13 minutes, January 2019). They [...]
January 31, 2019 0 When School Got Cancelled Because of the Super Bowl Three years ago this week, a headline rang out in the Wall Street Journal’s sports section, asking [...]
January 29, 2019 0 Home Sweet Catalog If you want to buy something today, you can often do from your couch. Pop open your computer or grab your [...]
January 28, 2019 0 The Man Who Inched Away at History On July 31, 1994, a Ukranian man named Sergey Bubka was on a work trip to the small Italian village of [...]
January 25, 2019 0 The Weekender, January 25, 2019 1) “The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand” (Narratively, 88 minutes, January 2019). If I [...]
January 23, 2019 0 A Fine Way to Encourage Reading Imagine a bookstore that worked on a membership program — instead of buying books, you rented them. And [...]
January 22, 2019 0 Harry Potter and the Uniform of Temporal Distortion Daniel Radcliffe isn’t a wizard — he just played one in the “Harry Potter” movies. In [...]
January 18, 2019 0 The Weekender, January 18, 2019 1) “The Boston Molasses Flood Is Worth Taking Seriously” (Atlas Obscura, 11 minutes, January [...]
January 16, 2019 0 How Tesla’s Death Ray Killed a Bill Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in modern day Croatia. He was one of the most innovative people of his time; [...]