July 3, 2017 0 The Three Hats Today’s Now I Know is a little different. As I said at the top of Friday’s Weekender, I’m [...]
June 30, 2017 0 The Weekender, June 30, 2017 1) “Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened ” (Wired, 38 minutes, November [...]
June 29, 2017 0 The Sleep-away Camp That Starts At Night Right now, thousands and thousands of American children are attending summer camps. Some of those kids take a [...]
June 28, 2017 0 The Color of Feeling Better When you take a pill, it makes its way to your stomach where it eventually dissolves. The stuff the pill is [...]
June 27, 2017 0 Why Farmers Treat Cows Like People Pictured above is a cow. That particular breed of cow is a Holstein-Friesian, the breed of cow which is [...]
June 26, 2017 0 Why (Some) Coins Have Ridges Pictured above are the four most common U.S. coins — from top to bottom, a dime, penny, nickel, [...]
June 23, 2017 0 The Weekender, June 23, 2017 1) “The Original Monopoly Was Deeply Anti-Landlord ” (Vice, 20 minutes, May 2017). You know [...]
June 22, 2017 0 The People Who Can’t Take Socks For Granted There’s a good chance you’re probably wearing socks right now — particularly if it’s [...]
June 20, 2017 0 The Internet’s Hidden Teapot Every once in a while, something on the Internet breaks. You’ve probably experienced it before. For [...]
June 19, 2017 0 How Long Would It Take to Count to a Million? At one number per second — with no breaks, at all, for any reason — it would take 11 days, 13 [...]