September 7, 2022 0 How Spider-Man’s Nemesis Aided Real-Life Law Enforcement For decades, the legal system in the United States and beyond has tried to find ways to keep tabs on those [...]
September 6, 2022 0 What About Bob (dot com)? If you’re reading these words, you almost certainly are due to the power of the Internet, a seemingly [...]
September 2, 2022 0 What the “Axe/Raft Mix” Is Hi! In Wednesday’s Now I Know, I made a reference to the image above– the coat of arms of [...]
September 1, 2022 0 The Wisdom of Crowds of Sports Fans? It’s fun to go to a sporting event. You get to watch elite athletes do things that we normal folk [...]
August 31, 2022 0 The Almost-War Over a Bear’s Missing Privates The country of Switzerland is divided into administrative districts called “cantons.” [...]
August 30, 2022 0 The Glow-in-the-Dark Watches That Also Killed People We can’t see in the dark. That’s why it’s called “the dark.” And that can be [...]
August 26, 2022 0 This Almost Got My Goat Hi! Last week, as you know if you were reading last week, I was on vacation. Specifically, I was in [...]
August 25, 2022 0 How to Get Supplies to an Underwater Laboratory Here’s a pretty basic rule of the oceans: things either sink or float. If you have a ship or really, [...]
August 23, 2022 0 Why Barber’s Poles Have All Those Stripes Pictured above is the outside of a barber shop. You know that’s the case because of the short little [...]
August 22, 2022 0 Why U-Hauls Pretend to be From Arizona If you’re on a long car ride with a bunch of kids — and trust me on this, I have recent [...]