November 12, 2021 0 How and Why the Sausage Is Made Hi! Another Friday, another Now I Know Weekender edition! As long-time readers know, I use Fridays to [...]
November 10, 2021 0 The Somewhat-Fake Sausage That Saved Lives Over the past few years, the popularity of plant-based meat alternatives has been on the rise. Some of the [...]
November 8, 2021 0 The Luggage Loophole That Isn’t Air travel is a safe, quick way to travel across long distances. But it can also be expensive. If [...]
November 5, 2021 0 Why We Still Have Daylight Saving Time (Maybe) Hi! Another Friday, another Now I Know Weekender edition! Today’s Week in Review is below, but [...]
November 4, 2021 0 There’s No-No Place Like Home In most places, the way the criminal justice system works is simple: if you commit a serious enough crime, [...]
November 3, 2021 0 How to Brew an Economy Cameroon is located in western Africa, barely bordering the Atlantic Ocean to its south. Like many African [...]
November 2, 2021 0 The Swampy Loophole in the Georgia Constitution In 1777, the U.S. state of Georgia adopted its first-ever state constitution. The document does what most [...]
November 1, 2021 0 The Costume That Was a Trick Last night, millions of children (and a handful of adults) around the world dressed up in costumes and went [...]
October 29, 2021 0 How To Get Rid of Lots of Old Books Hi! Two weeks ago, I asked for your help: I had a lot of books I wanted to give away, and [...]
October 27, 2021 0 The Odd Depths of Preserving Plutonium Plutonium is a silvery-white chemical element that you can probably go your whole life without encouraging in [...]