April 13, 2016 0 “We Won’t Give Up Until You Bleed” You enter the gymnasium to find a bunch of cots positioned around the room. There are people lying down on [...]
April 12, 2016 0 Not Up to Scratch Natural gas, as long-time readers of Now I Know may have learned about via the bonus item here, is odorless. [...]
April 11, 2016 0 The Life and Lies of Betty Crocker If you’d like to make a cake (or in the above example, “low-fat fudge brownies”), [...]
April 7, 2016 0 The Typo on the Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is one of Washington, D.C.’s top tourist attractions. The monument, erected to [...]
April 6, 2016 0 NOɹW∀˥ ˥OOʞINפ q∩┴ ∩ԀSIpƎ pOMN If you try and read the “words” in the title above from left to right, you’ll realize right away that [...]
April 5, 2016 0 Swooshed in Translation In 1989, Nike embarked on an advertising campaign showing various people from around the world, each group [...]
April 4, 2016 0 The Birds that Sing for Their Supper Five of the eggs pictured above belong together; one of those eggs just isn’t the same. And the [...]
April 1, 2016 0 The Deleted Scene from The Princess Bride If you’ve never watched the movie The Princess Bride or read the book, the bad news is that the story below [...]
March 31, 2016 0 As the Ball Doesn’t Bounce The San Francisco Bay area is home to an extraordinary number of earthquakes. The map above shows the [...]
March 25, 2016 0 The Weekender: March 25, 2016 1) “What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team” (New York Times Magazine, [...]