August 14, 2017 0 The Man Who Liked Himself So Much, He Went to Jail Only about 80,000 people live in the Cascade County, Montana, but with a total area of 2,711 square [...]
August 11, 2017 0 The Weekender, August 11, 2017 1) “The Real Butlers of the .001 Percent” (GQ, 16 minutes, May 2014). Thanks to reader Matt H. [...]
August 9, 2017 0 A Penny (or 2,500) For Your Misdeeds A penny is worth one cent, which is to say it’s basically worthless, but not entirely so. Gather enough [...]
August 8, 2017 0 The Never-Built Airport That Was Never Intended to be Used Anyway On November 4, 1968, a National Airlines flight from New Orleans en route to Miami was hijacked and diverted [...]
August 7, 2017 0 A Berry Loopy Lawsuit In 1963, the Quaker Oats Company introduced the world to Cap’n Crunch, a sugar cereal and its [...]
August 4, 2017 0 The Weekender, August 4, 2017 1) “The Many Lives of Pauli Murray” (The New Yorker, 21 minutes, April 2017). The subhead: [...]
August 2, 2017 0 The Balloon Expedition to the North Pole That Was a Bust The North Pole isn’t a good place to visit — it’s cold, hard to get to, and there’s [...]
August 1, 2017 0 The Poop Collector We all have different hobbies. Some of us like to play golf, others enjoy cooking, still others write trivia [...]
July 31, 2017 0 Why We Wake Up With Crusty Eyes They go by many names — crusties, eye boogers, sleep dust, goop, or sometimes simply [...]
July 28, 2017 0 The Weekender, July 28, 2017 1) “The Children of Strangers” (New Yorker, 45 minutes, August 2015). The subhead: “Sue [...]