June 2, 2023 0 The Decade-Old Dialect Quiz You Should Take Hi! In December 2013, I learned something that I found ridiculous, and it stuck with me. In part of the [...]
May 31, 2023 0 The Soviet Plan to Make Real Ads for Fake Products Television ads serve a very clear purpose: the help makers of stuff sell more of that stuff. Maybe the goal [...]
May 30, 2023 0 Why Europeans Can’t Score in Their Own Basket The rules of basketball, in their most basic sense, are simple: if you put the ball through the other [...]
May 26, 2023 0 Reintroducing the Random Button Hi! Before I get started on today’s email, a quick programming note: Monday is Memorial Day in the [...]
May 25, 2023 0 Tina Turner’s Surprising Trademark Tina Turner passed away yesterday at the age of 83, and she leaves behind a legacy of smash hits and the [...]
May 23, 2023 0 The Convict Who Pulled an Inside Job In April of 2023, a man in Georgia named Arthur Cofield pled guilty to charges of bank fraud and [...]
May 22, 2023 0 How No Drinking Led to Speed Racing You don’t need me to tell you this, but drinking alcohol and driving — they don’t mix. As [...]
May 19, 2023 0 The Bathtub Defense is Real Hi! This week, many of you taught me about tornado safety. Today, I’m sharing what I learned (this is, [...]
May 18, 2023 0 The Worst Way to Target a Lower Stock Price? If you’re looking for stock advice, well, this is the wrong email newsletter for you. Nothing [...]
May 16, 2023 0 ALF’s Bath That Went Down the Memory Hole Drain From the fall of 1986 until the spring of 1990, you could see aliens — if you watched primetime [...]