July 10, 2017 0 How a Creative Codebreaker Changed the Course of WWII On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. [...]
July 7, 2017 0 The Weekender, July 7, 2017 1) “The Invention of the Slinky” (Priceonomics, 10 minutes, December 2014). It’s much [...]
July 6, 2017 0 Who Was the Fifth Dentist — That Didn’t Recommend Trident? In 1964, the Warner-Lambert Company earned a patent for a brand new product — sugarless chewing gum. [...]
July 5, 2017 0 The New York Police Officer Whose Job is a Buzz There are approximately 35,000 police officers in the New York Police Department. These NYPD officers serve [...]
July 4, 2017 0 The Three Hats, Solved Yesterday, I shared the following puzzle. Scroll past the Patreon block for the answer! * * * The puzzle, in [...]
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 [...]