August 11, 2015 0 When Christopher Columbus Made the Moon Disappear The image above is what the Moon looked like, from Earth (of course), on April 15, 2014. You’ll note that [...]
August 10, 2015 0 Why Stealing America’s Nuclear Secrets was as Easy As Pi Richard Feynman was one of modern history’s greatest scientists — a Nobel Laureate in Physics [...]
August 7, 2015 0 What Happens to U.S./Canadian Relations When Milk Prices are Out of Sync Let’s do some math. The drive from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, to Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A., is [...]
August 6, 2015 0 The Day Fake Wrestling Became Real Bret “The Hitman” Hart, pictured above, was a wrestling icon in the late 1980s and well into the 1990s. [...]
August 5, 2015 0 The Land of the Adopted Son In 2011, a total of 81,000 people were adopted by Japanese families. If you think that’s a lot of babies [...]
August 4, 2015 0 The $54 Million Pants Suit Dry cleaning is weekly ritual for many. The customer comes into the store with a bag of his or her clothes, [...]
August 3, 2015 0 The Bombs Left Behind in Laos The Vietnam War ran for nearly twenty years, from late 1955 until the spring of 1975. While most of the [...]
July 31, 2015 0 The Weekender: July 31, 2015 1) “A World Without Work” (The Atlantic, 34 minutes, July/August 2015). What happens when the [...]
July 30, 2015 0 Guest Post: Why Learning Styles are Not Actually a Thing This is a guest post by Liesl Johnson, as part of Now I Know’s Patreon program. For more information [...]
July 30, 2015 0 Columbia University’s Hazelnut Problems If you’re lucky enough to gain admittance into New York City’s Columbia University, be prepared for some [...]