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Hi! There won’t be a Now I Know in your inbox on Monday; I’m taking it off because Monday is [...]

The island of New Guinea sits just north of Australia (here’s a map). It’s divided into two [...]

Imagine you’re in your apartment on a Saturday night with not a lot to do. That sounds like a good start to [...]

In the United States and, for that matter, many other places around the world, schools are struggling to [...]

Hi!  I tried. Really. But many of you still hit a paywall last week — not mine, but the New York [...]

The image above comes from the 1999 movie “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.” Dr. Evil, the [...]

Pictured above is a photo of some houses in Bermuda (via here), an idyllic island nation in the North [...]

Pictured above is a brick wall painted white. At the time that picture was taken, the wall had been newly [...]

Hi!  In December 2013, I learned something that I found ridiculous, and it stuck with me. In part of the [...]

Television ads serve a very clear purpose: the help makers of stuff sell more of that stuff. Maybe the goal [...]