April 30, 2019 0 The Dancing Plague In the mid-1300s, the Black Death ravaged Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East and neighboring parts [...]
April 29, 2019 0 Why You Shouldn’t Take Advice From a Board Game Monopoly, as I’ve mentioned before, is a terrible board game. The rules are complicated and often make [...]
April 26, 2019 0 The Weekender, April 26, 2019 1) “Physicians Get Addicted Too” (The Atlantic, 21 minutes, April 2019). The subhead: “Lou [...]
April 25, 2019 0 The Bug in the Plan In most parts of the world, if your car is stolen, the police will take some meaningful efforts to try to [...]
April 23, 2019 0 Why These Windows Don’t Have Windows Pictured above is a building from Southampton, England. It has a lot of windows — there are seven (plus [...]
April 22, 2019 0 The Surströmming Offensive There are lots of advantages to living in an apartment building, sure, but there are also some disadvantages, [...]
April 18, 2019 0 The Weekender, April 19, 2019 1) “Are X-Men (Legally) Human?” Another installment of the Now I Know YouTube channel is up! If [...]
April 17, 2019 0 The Recursive Candy Bar Pictured above, snapped in half, is a Kit Kat bar. That’s probably not quite an accurate image [...]
April 16, 2019 0 Why Do Escalators Have Those Brushes Along the Edge? The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once joked that “an escalator can never break; it can only become [...]
April 15, 2019 0 The Swimming Pool That Was Literally Blacked Out If you’re into Instagram and you were near the lake above, you’d almost certainly have taken a [...]