June 12, 2020 0 The Weekender, June 12, 2020 Hi! As many of you know, in late 2018, I ran a Kickstarter to fund the creation of a Now I Know YouTube [...]
June 11, 2020 0 When You Don’t Believe Your Past Self Think back to a major moment in your life — something which you truly think you remember each and every [...]
June 9, 2020 0 High Altitude Flatus Expulsion The job of a commercial airline is simple: fly people from point A to point B. And when a flight takes off [...]
June 8, 2020 0 It Doesn’t Stand for “Eradicating Dangerous Mosquitoes” EDM stands for “Electronic Dance Music.” You’re probably familiar with it to some degree, [...]
June 5, 2020 0 The Weekender, June 5, 2020 Hi! Every so often, I come across a really great fun fact that I hope to share, but as I research it a [...]
June 3, 2020 0 They Called it “Massive Resistance” May 17, 1954, was a bright moment in American history. By unanimous vote, the Supreme Court ruled that [...]
June 2, 2020 0 Cherries, Helicopters, and Hair Dryers We probably think of cherries as berries, but they’re not — they’re drupes, or stone fruits, and [...]
June 1, 2020 0 The American Civil War of World War II If you were alive during World War II, you were probably getting a lot of your news from the daily newspaper. [...]
May 29, 2020 0 The Weekender, May 29, 2020 Hi! I’m about a month away from Now I Know’s tenth (!) anniversary, so I’ve been [...]
May 28, 2020 0 Giving a Word a Different Spin It’s thankfully somewhat less commonly used today, but the term “spinster” isn’t a [...]