July 2, 2018 0 When the Jazz Didn’t Stop Playing Jazz music is hard to define — it’s often improvisational with no clear path. But you know it [...]
June 29, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 29, 2018 1) “The Counterfeit Queen of Soul” (Smithsonian Magazine, 19 minutes, July 2018). This is the [...]
June 28, 2018 0 The Border-Splitting Hotel That Hid The Resistance On the border of France and Switzerland is the town of La Cure. As suggested by the map above, the words [...]
June 26, 2018 0 The Macroeconomic Madness Behind Extra Cheesy Pizza Domino’s Pizza is one of the world’s best-known fast food chains, despite the fact that during [...]
June 25, 2018 0 Why the National Animal of Scotland is… Wait, Really? If nothing else, Wikipedia is a great place to find lists of things. For example, if you really need to find [...]
June 22, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 22, 2018 1) Results from the Now I Know Reader Survey, June 2018. As promised! Click and give it a read. Here’s [...]
June 20, 2018 0 Babe Versus the Judge On September 28, 1920, baseball players Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson testified in front of a [...]
June 19, 2018 0 Why Is it Named Idaho? Idunno! Most places get names from, well, somewhere. Let’s just focus on some U.S. states, to make it easy. [...]
June 18, 2018 0 The Radio Reporter Who Found a New Voice, Literally Jamie Dupree, pictured above is a political reporter. He got his start in the 1980s and by 1992 was covering [...]
June 15, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 15, 2018 1) “‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job ” (The Guardian, 10 [...]