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Right now, around the world, there are probably a million or so people around the world playing Minecraft. [...]

Hi! I don’t really have much to share this week other than the week in review itself, so I’m [...]

North Korea, as recounted in these pages many times over, is unlike most of the rest of the world, and not in [...]

On July 18, 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci took to the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics. A [...]

Exercise is good for you. That’s not a surprise to read, I hope. The benefits of cardiovascular [...]

Hi! Thirteen years ago yesterday, Now I Know was born. For the first few years of the newsletter, I’d [...]

Chester Township, New Jersey, is a municipality in the northern part of the state, home to about 7,500 [...]

Pictured above, via NPR, is a mite called Demodex folliculorum, or just “Demodex” for short for [...]

Hi! There won’t be a Now I Know in your inbox on Monday; I’m taking it off because Monday is [...]

The island of New Guinea sits just north of Australia (here’s a map). It’s divided into two [...]