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Kickstarter, founded in 2009, is a “crowdfunding” platform — it facilitates the process [...]

1) “The Hotel Room Hacker” (Wired, 25 minutes, August 2018). Thanks to Michael G. for the tip. On [...]

In 2001, a nine-year-old girl named Laura Buxton was in Staffordshire, England, attending an anniversary [...]

Pictured above is a pair of Korean college students rafting down the Han River, the major interior waterway [...]

There are more than 100,000 people who are waiting for a kidney donation in the United States alone. And the [...]

1) Now I Know on YouTube: The Kickstarter Campaign! Thanks again to everyone who already pledged their [...]

As places go, it’s hard to be less notable than Winganon, Oklahoma. It’s an unincorporated [...]

Plug an appliance into a wall socket and you’re going to take for granted, that, absent an outage, [...]

At the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Santa Claus — or a reasonable facsimile [...]

1) Turkey trivia for your Thanksgiving! Here are some selections from past Now I Know issues which could make [...]