June 24, 2024 0 How Bad Film Captured an Explosion On August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days [...]
June 21, 2024 0 Thanking the Anonymous Helpers Hi! Yesterday, my oldest kid graduated high school. (Congrats to him!) It was a great moment — so much so [...]
June 20, 2024 0 The Nobel Prize Winner Who Bet Against Himself Robert Lucas, Jr. graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in Economics and returned to the [...]
June 18, 2024 0 The Dead Parrot Society On May 2, 2023, a 96-year-old woman named Pauline Stensgar passed away in the state of Washington — and [...]
June 17, 2024 0 How To Make a Blockbuster Movie (Without Really Trying) If you went to a movie theater on June 15, 2024 — that is, two days ago — there’s a very good chance [...]
June 14, 2024 0 It’s Not a Bird, It’s Not a Plane… It’s a Hat! Hi! Next month, the Summer Olympics is coming to Paris. Like all recent Games, this Olympics has a bespoke [...]
June 13, 2024 0 The Man Who Saved a Butterfly If you’re a fan of the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” you’re probably already roughly aware of [...]
June 11, 2024 0 Survey Says: Guilty In 2019, Darren Laskowski, then the chief deputy of the Oconto County (Wisconsin) sheriff’s office, arrived [...]
June 10, 2024 0 Flood For Your Right to Party? In the spring of 1993, it rained in the Midwestern United States. That’s not unusual — rain and spring go [...]
June 7, 2024 0 The Best Movies I’ve Watched Over the Last Three+ Years Hi! Over the pandemic, many of us started new projects and adopted new hobbies, myself included. One of the [...]