September 5, 2023 0 How 1930s Syria “Solved” Its Drought Problem People need water to survive. For Syria, though, that’s been a problem more than once — according [...]
September 4, 2023 0 The Different Coin Here’s the puzzle, as I asked on Friday: You have a balance (like the one above) and twelve [...]
September 1, 2023 0 The Two Coins Hi!I’m still on vacation but I wanted to do something different over the holiday weekend, so, I’m [...]
August 25, 2023 0 Vacation Mode, On! Hi! Today is the last Friday in August, which means that summer is coming to a close here in the northern [...]
August 24, 2023 0 The Man Who Beat the Lottery (and Still Lost) Earlier this month, someone in Florida became very wealthy overnight — and without doing a lot of work [...]
August 22, 2023 0 Picasso vs. Titanic It’s probably not much of an overstatement to say that the cinema world changed on December 19, 1997. [...]
August 21, 2023 0 The $10,000 Cantaloupe A few times a year, we find the occasion to give gifts to our friends, families, and loved ones. In the [...]
August 18, 2023 0 What I’ve Never Read Hi! This week, I wrote about Dracula — you can find that link in the Week in Review, below — [...]
August 17, 2023 0 You Can’t Eat Here (And Don’t Really Want to Anyway) Forestville, California, is a census-designated place in Sonoma County, an area known for its vineyards, [...]
August 15, 2023 0 Ulysses Subtracting (Land) Grant? Ulysses S. Grant was the Commanding General of the Union Army in the Civil War and, a few years after the war [...]