February 28, 2022 0 The Golden Boxes of Cheerios Pictured above are three boxes of Cheerios, the breakfast cereal. You can probably get a current version of [...]
February 25, 2022 0 A Newsletter Not About the News Hi! The email I sent you yesterday was written before Russia invaded Ukraine, as I briefly mentioned in [...]
February 24, 2022 0 The Party That Was Its Own Invitation The Cold War began in 1947, shortly after the end of World War II. Around the globe, nations aligned as [...]
February 22, 2022 0 The Checks That Saved 75 Christmases In 2008, a man named Ted Gup received a gift from his 80-year-old mother: a large suitcase that once belonged [...]
February 18, 2022 0 The Heroes in the Shadows Hi! This week, I shared two stories — Wednesday’s and Thursday’s — about [...]
February 17, 2022 0 The Judge Who Intentionally Sent an Innocent Man to Jail A few years ago, a North Carolina man named Joe Serna was arrested for driving while intoxicated. He [...]
February 16, 2022 0 The Fake Witch Who Saved Dozens of Lives The African nation of Rwanda is a landlocked country, bordering Uganda to its north, the Democratic Republic [...]
February 15, 2022 0 The Very Short Flight You Couldn’t Even Take If you wanted to travel from London, England to Cardiff, Wales, your best bet is probably to drive — at [...]
February 11, 2022 0 The Mazda-Breaking Radio and Podcast Mysteries Hi! As long-time readers know, on Fridays — like, you know, today — I do a week-in-review type of [...]
February 10, 2022 0 The Border Dispute That Vanished The image above is a screenshot from the satellite view of Google Maps. The white line running from top of [...]