February 9, 2024 0 The Now I Know Super Bowl Contest Hi! Let’s play a game. Or, let’s watch a game! Whichever. Sunday night is Super Bowl LVIII, and people [...]
February 8, 2024 0 Russian Roulette, Soda Style In 2003, author Ben Schwartz wrote a book titled “The Paradox of Choice.” The main thesis of the book is [...]
February 6, 2024 0 When People Were Afraid of Parrots If you’re running a business, it’s very important that your customers feel safe before dealing with you. [...]
February 5, 2024 0 When New York Choked the Artichoke Trade Pictured above (via a food blog) are two artichokes — a regular, full-sized one and a baby artichoke. [...]
February 2, 2024 0 Help Me Share Now I Know Hi! I’m really excited to share something new today: a way for me to give you something cool for sharing [...]
January 31, 2024 0 Why Did This Rabbit Drive a Car? Pictured above is a car, kind of, with a vanity license plate reading “Alex.” It’s a very tiny car and [...]
January 30, 2024 0 Math and the Missing Planet With apologies to Pluto, there are eight planets in our Solar System. We discovered Earth by, well, just [...]
January 29, 2024 0 When Milwaukee Went to War Over Bridges Pictured above is a screenshot from Google Maps, showing part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Here’s the actual [...]
January 26, 2024 0 An Easy Self-Working Magic Trick Hi! Let’s try something different today. I like magic tricks but I’m awful at them — I’m not [...]
January 25, 2024 0 How the Cold War Brought Us Closer to a Galaxy Far, Far Away From the end of World War II until its dissolution in 1990, Czechoslovakia was a perilous place to be, at [...]