June 12, 2026 0 Monoculture Versus the Internet Hi! Before I get started today, I want to give another thank you to Inkwell Games for sponsoring this [...]
June 11, 2026 0 Why Is a Basketball Team Named After Pants? Last night, the New York Knicks stunned the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. With about ten [...]
June 9, 2026 0 How to Steal a House? Fairfield, Connecticut, isn’t the sort of place where residents worry about theft. It’s a small, [...]
June 8, 2026 0 The Desert’s Night Lights The Al-Nafud Desert, sometimes called the Great Nafud, sprawls across roughly 64,000 square kilometers of [...]
June 5, 2026 0 150 Sudoku Puzzles You’ll Want To Try Hi! As long-time readers of the newsletter know, I’m a fan of variant sudoku puzzles — sudoku with [...]
June 4, 2026 0 The Boy and the Blue Cup If you have a toddler at home, you know that meal time is always a trick. They want to feed themselves but [...]
June 2, 2026 0 A Planely Obvious Punishment It’s a scene you’ve seen on TV or in movies dozens of times. Something goes wrong on a single-person [...]
June 1, 2026 0 A Life-Saving Football Blooper https://youtu.be/a7LPLJz4vAQ?si=HC0p5dhajeDUsHj5 On December 1, 2025, the New England Patriots hosted the New [...]
May 29, 2026 0 The Joy of Discovery and the Power of Sharing Hi! I’ve been writing Now I Know for more than fifteen years and I’ve gotten a lot of questions about it [...]
May 28, 2026 0 The Weird Cultural Shift Over High Heeled Shoes Pictured above is a famous portrait of Louis XIV of France from 1701. You’ll immediately notice that [...]