March 25, 2024 0 Superman Versus the Klan In 1940, just a few years after his comic book debut, Superman took to the airwaves. For more than a decade, [...]
March 22, 2024 0 Feel-Good Stories are Hard to Find Hi! Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to find more uplifting, positive stories to share — no [...]
March 21, 2024 0 Good Mousekeeping We’ve all been in this situation: you work hard doing whatever you do, and when it’s time to call it a [...]
March 19, 2024 0 The Problem with Customer Support Chatbots Fred Rogers, better known as “Mister Rogers” of the eponymous “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” said [...]
March 18, 2024 0 The Blind Man and the Armless Man Who Planted 10,000 Trees In the northeastern part of China, you’ll find a rural village called Yeli. (Here’s a map.) The Ye River [...]
March 15, 2024 0 Introducing Now I Know T-Shirts, Mugs, and Other Swag! Hi! Now I Know celebrates its 14th anniversary this year, and the email newsletter world has grown up a lot [...]
March 14, 2024 0 The Town Where It’s Fun to Be a Grouch The town of Readlyn, Iowa, is located in the northeastern-ish part of the state, about a two-and-a-half-hour [...]
March 12, 2024 0 The World’s Oldest Kindergartener For most of the 1950s, the area now known as Kenya was at war. The region was a British colony from the late [...]
March 11, 2024 0 The Endless “Africa” in Africa The Namib Desert is a roughly 160,000 km2 (62,000 square miles) expanse running down the western coast of [...]
March 8, 2024 0 I Asked an AI to Write This Newsletter Hi! I’ve been tinkering lately with Microsoft Copilot, a generative AI tool. It’s pretty good if you’re [...]