July 18, 2025 0 An Unforced Error Hi! This week, I made a mistake. Let’s see if you can spot it. (And thanks to reader Marc T. who not only [...]
July 15, 2025 0 Do Not Fry This At Home Furnace Creek, California is a community in Death Valley National Park. (Here’s a map.) It’s home to [...]
July 14, 2025 0 History’s Highest Stakes Chess Match? On July 11, 1972, American chess player Bobby Fischer faced off against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in [...]
July 11, 2025 0 Two Very Fun, But Very Hard, Sudokus Hi! If you’ve been reading Now I Know for a long time now, you know that I like variant sudoku puzzles. If [...]
July 10, 2025 0 Getting Divorced Over an Illegal Hyphen? In a typical marriage, when someone says, “we’re getting a divorce,” it’s not great [...]
July 8, 2025 0 When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town The Lumbee people are a Native American tribe based in southeastern North Carolina, primarily around Robeson [...]
July 7, 2025 0 The Burger With a Side of Insensitivity For nearly a century, the name McDonald’s has been synonymous with hamburgers. The chain of fast food [...]
July 3, 2025 0 Happy (Almost) Fourth of July! Hi! I’m taking tomorrow off for the 4th of July, so today’s Weekender is hitting your inbox a day early. [...]
July 1, 2025 0 The Bovine Unity of Milk and Glue? Pictured above is a suite of dairy products from Borden, an American foodstuffs company founded in 1857. The [...]
June 30, 2025 0 This Airport SUX I’m not a fan of air travel — it’s expensive, you need to show up way ahead of your departure time, and [...]