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Hi! If you’ve been reading Now I Know for more than, say, a day or two, you know that I typically share [...]

The Atlantic Ocean is big — very big. It has an area of more than 40 million square miles (100 million [...]

Go to any sporting event and you’ll see something which, in any other context, may be weird: customers are [...]

On March 8, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines entered South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat [...]

Hi! Last year, I turned 46, so the title isn’t quite accurate. At age 45, if you’re at an average risk [...]

Collettesville, North Carolina is a small, unincorporated town in the northwesterniish part of the state. [...]

Climate change is a major topic of discussion around the world. Around the world, societies are looking for [...]

Life on Earth can be difficult — we have wars, poverty, famine, and all sorts of other problems. But in [...]

Hi! A decade ago, I wrote a story titled “Esopus Spitzenburg and the Newtown Pippin.” It’s about apples [...]

Across the United States and much of the northern hemisphere, children of all ages have bid summer goodbye [...]