September 13, 2023 0 The Mystery of the Exploding Toads Pictured above is a European toad, a type of frog. As animals go, they’re not terribly special — [...]
September 12, 2023 0 The Town That Fled a Fake Earthquake In 1812, the lower 48 states — that’s the United States but minus Alaska and Hawaii — were [...]
September 8, 2023 0 Why I Love Parenthetical Asides Hi! If you’ve read Now I Know for, oh, a few months at least, you probably notice that my grammar and [...]
September 6, 2023 0 On Tape From LA, It’s Saturday Night! On October 11, 1975, comedian George Carlin came down from the balcony in one of NBC’s studios and made [...]
September 5, 2023 0 How 1930s Syria “Solved” Its Drought Problem People need water to survive. For Syria, though, that’s been a problem more than once — according [...]
September 4, 2023 0 The Different Coin Here’s the puzzle, as I asked on Friday: You have a balance (like the one above) and twelve [...]
September 1, 2023 0 The Two Coins Hi!I’m still on vacation but I wanted to do something different over the holiday weekend, so, I’m [...]
August 25, 2023 0 Vacation Mode, On! Hi! Today is the last Friday in August, which means that summer is coming to a close here in the northern [...]
August 24, 2023 0 The Man Who Beat the Lottery (and Still Lost) Earlier this month, someone in Florida became very wealthy overnight — and without doing a lot of work [...]
August 22, 2023 0 Picasso vs. Titanic It’s probably not much of an overstatement to say that the cinema world changed on December 19, 1997. [...]