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In the late 1960s, American television executives Digby Wolfe and George Schlatter were on the verge of TV [...]

The Spanish island of Ibiza sits in the Mediterranean Sea, about 150 km (90 miles) off the eastern coast of [...]

Hi! It’s been a busy week for me and I don’t have a lot to share. One mea culpa though — Wednesday’s [...]

If you have little kids or have ever been around a little kid, you’ve probably seen this in action: the kid [...]

You’re probably familiar with the symbol pictured above. It’s the peace symbol, a widely-used shorthand [...]

Imagine you have in front of you a mug of water. You look at it, and you can’t tell if it’s hot or cold. [...]

In 2017, a series of more than 5,000 wildfires tore through the forests of Chile, claiming 11 lives, [...]

If you’re a student and you want to get a teacher’s attention, it’s easy: just raise your hand and keep [...]

Hi! Today’s Weekender is about typos, but nothing I wrote about this week prompted me to write this essay. [...]

Pictured above, via the South China Morning Post, is a picture of farmland. But it doesn’t look like most [...]