February 4, 2020 0 A Creative Way to Pay the Czechs During the Cold War, much of the world was divided into two camps: the democracies and the communist nations. [...]
February 3, 2020 0 The Drones With Brains of Their Own Ascension Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, about equidistant from the coast of Africa and [...]
January 31, 2020 0 The Weekender, January 31, 2020 Hi! I really wanted to titled today’s email something like “It’s better to have an [...]
January 30, 2020 0 A Frank-ly Kind Act Summertime is vacation for schoolchildren and, left to their own devices, there’s no telling what [...]
January 28, 2020 0 Why Do Bakers Have Bigger Dozens? A dozen, by definition, is twelve of something — eggs, doughnuts, roses, it doesn’t matter. And [...]
January 27, 2020 0 Behold the Power of Dried Plums “Say cheese.” If you’re posing for a picture in an English-speaking area, you are very [...]
January 24, 2020 0 The Weekender, January 24, 2020 Hi! Earlier this week, a baseball writer I follow on Twitter, Craig Calcaterra, shared a story about [...]
January 22, 2020 0 What To Do When Iguanas Fall From the Sky Green iguanas, pictured above, aren’t native to South Florida, but they’ve carved out a home for [...]
January 21, 2020 0 How a Rock Band Helped Runaway Kids Find Their Way Home Here’s some good news: in the United States, almost all of the children who are reported missing [...]
January 17, 2020 0 The Weekender, January 17, 2020 Hi! A reader wrote in this week to ask why I don’t really use Twitter or Facebook etc. for Now I [...]