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We briefly had Long Connecticut

March 22, 2026
The other alphabetical order we almost had

March 16, 2026
The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan

March 8, 2026
Why Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme?

March 1, 2026
The Five Boroughs of Old York

February 22, 2026
The most contentious person on Wikipedia is an African samurai

February 14, 2026
Map projections are tough – here’s my new favorite

February 8, 2026
We still use Roman money

February 1, 2026
1960: The Year of Africa

January 25, 2026
The mountain that weighed the Earth

January 18, 2026
Why the government’s bank account grew 100x since 2007

January 11, 2026
Happy Public Domain Day

January 4, 2026
There are too many types of barcode

December 28, 2025
Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City

December 21, 2025
Judging Fractals

December 15, 2025
Looking back on Inkhaven

December 7, 2025
Treating Factorio Withdrawal

November 30, 2025
I collect Rubik’s cubes – and I can’t solve them

November 29, 2025
Inkhaven’s turn: The best empires 600 BCE – Present

November 28, 2025
The best empires 500 BCE – Present, according to me

November 27, 2025
Review: Surreal Numbers

November 26, 2025
The dying idealism of Peacecore

November 26, 2025
A deep dive into the Earth

November 24, 2025
Fiction: A leap of logic

November 23, 2025
Designing a Mechanical Calculator

November 22, 2025
Genghis Khan Day

November 21, 2025
Judging 4D shapes

November 20, 2025
Being judgmental about geometric shapes

November 19, 2025
Universities are Venture Capital for Prestige

November 18, 2025
Europe’s Hidden Buddhist Mongolian Republic

November 17, 2025
Games I love, ranked by “spreadsheet factor”

November 16, 2025
NASA is Scott, China is Amundsen

November 15, 2025
Philosophy-shaped mind shards

November 14, 2025
Vikings. Vikings everywhere.

November 13, 2025
Tides are weirder than you think

November 12, 2025
Review: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, by Maciej Cegłowski

November 11, 2025
8 forgotten facts about the Olympics

November 10, 2025
You can just do experiments

November 9, 2025
Were the Space Shuttle’s boosters really the size of two horse butts?

November 8, 2025
Some ballad meter poetry, to just amuse myself

November 7, 2025
The metal that remade time

November 6, 2025
Factorio is a zombie shooter for nerds

November 5, 2025
When the heck did Hammurabi actually rule?

November 4, 2025
I ate bear fat, to prove a point

November 3, 2025
A formula for round numbers

November 2, 2025
Ahoy Ahoy, Mound!

November 1, 2025