Messages
8/9/2024
14 : 14
Share Your Favorite Mini Games With Me!
and: why isn't there a good backgammon phone app? sigh.
8/8/2024
14 : 24
The Weird Snack Chip Trick That May Get You Fired
Okay, maybe the golf habit was the real problem
8/7/2024
14 : 14
How a Seven Year Old Kid Convinced Us to Strangle Ourselves
Let's call it a tie.
8/6/2024
14 : 14
A Spiteful (But Funny) Way to Deal With Telemarketers
Extension 666
8/5/2024
13 : 24
Please Be Quiet, We Can't Hear the Martians
A century ago, we listened. Closely.
8/2/2024
13 : 44
The eBay Fact I Can't Verify
Our story begins in 2008... and may never end.
8/1/2024
13 : 34
What Cheaters Should Watch Out For
An ultramarathon that changed into a relay race
7/31/2024
13 : 14
Why We Wake Up With Crusty Eyes
Blink and you might miss it.
7/30/2024
13 : 14
These Shoes Are Made for Talking
Get Smart, minus the phone part.
7/29/2024
13 : 24
The Easy Way to Get into the Olympics
You're not going to get a medal, though
7/26/2024
13 : 34
Results of the Now I Know Reader Survey
One question is totally zany
7/25/2024
13 : 14
Why Barns are Red
But not why violets are blue (and they're not, they're violet, but that's another story for another day)
7/24/2024
13 : 14
The Great Minnesota Goose Scandal of 2017
A football player fumbles a cultural moment
7/23/2024
13 : 14
There Is No "Eye" in "Art"
"I," "Eye," what's the difference.
7/22/2024
13 : 14
The Fastest Human-Created Object is a ... What?
Oh, it has to do with nukes?
7/19/2024
13 : 34
The Now I Know Reader Survey, July 2024
100 duck-sized horses? Peru? Cold pizza? Broadway on roller skates? All will be inside!
7/18/2024
13 : 14
Alone in the Ocean
Meet the whale that can't talk with other whales
7/17/2024
13 : 44
The Dirty Lyric Snuck Onto The Radio
🃏 😇
7/16/2024
13 : 14
The Pencil That Told Kids To Do Something They Shouldn't
As they got sharper, they got... oh.
7/15/2024
13 : 34
A Mountainous Problem With Instant Noodles
The noodles are fine, actually. The broth, though...