June 22, 2026 0 A Random Quack of Kindness The image above comes from the parking lot of a small town grocery store on a regular weekday day in America. [...]
June 18, 2026 0 The Role of Empathy in Storytelling Hi! Tomorrow is Juneteenth, which became an official American federal holiday in 2021. I’m taking it off, [...]
June 16, 2026 0 The Island the U.S. and Canada Both Want If you were to look at a map of the border between the United States and Canada, you’d see thousands of [...]
June 15, 2026 0 The Vegetable That Used to Cost More Than Caviar Summer is officially around the corner, but for some reason, I’ll be making chicken soup this week — even [...]
June 12, 2026 0 Monoculture Versus the Internet Hi! Before I get started today, I want to give another thank you to Inkwell Games for sponsoring this [...]
June 11, 2026 0 Why Is a Basketball Team Named After Pants? Last night, the New York Knicks stunned the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. With about ten [...]
June 9, 2026 0 How to Steal a House? Fairfield, Connecticut, isn’t the sort of place where residents worry about theft. It’s a small, [...]
June 8, 2026 0 The Desert’s Night Lights The Al-Nafud Desert, sometimes called the Great Nafud, sprawls across roughly 64,000 square kilometers of [...]
June 5, 2026 0 150 Sudoku Puzzles You’ll Want To Try Hi! As long-time readers of the newsletter know, I’m a fan of variant sudoku puzzles — sudoku with [...]
June 4, 2026 0 The Boy and the Blue Cup If you have a toddler at home, you know that meal time is always a trick. They want to feed themselves but [...]