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Antarctica is keeping the ocean alive…for now
September 20, 2026
The mystery animal on an ancient god’s head
September 13, 2026
The Earth is missing 3 trillion tons of mass
September 6, 2026
The two Christian saints who are secretly the Buddha
August 30, 2026
How to find an eclipse around another planet
August 24, 2026
The next total solar eclipse is 500 million miles away
August 17, 2026
“There Will Come Soft Rains”: Bradbury’s miniature apocalypse
August 4, 2026
How to put 170 atoms in an atom
August 2, 2026
The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon
July 26, 2026
8 billion protagonists
July 19, 2026
Even more things turning 250 this year
July 12, 2026
What else is turning 250 this year?
July 5, 2026
Why New Zealand is on a map of the USA
June 28, 2026
The last Romans are still around
June 20, 2026
The failed plan to centralize the world’s nukes
June 14, 2026
When Britain declared war on Kandy
June 7, 2026
You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone
May 31, 2026
What Columbus used instead of the North Star
May 24, 2026
The round-the-world escape from Pearl Harbor
May 17, 2026
Mbabaram for dog is “dog”
May 11, 2026
How sticky corn confounded western science
May 3, 2026
Going Back: Inkhaven
April 20, 2026
Going Back: Rituals
April 19, 2026
“You don’t have to go back there”
April 18, 2026
Going Back: 6 time travel methods
April 17, 2026
Going Back: Judging Irrational Numbers
April 16, 2026
Going Back: The Khwarazmian Empire
April 15, 2026
Going back: The Moon
April 14, 2026
Going Back: Glee Club
April 13, 2026
Going Back #1: My old writing
April 12, 2026
A Tale of Two Hyderabads
April 6, 2026
The school in a nuclear bunker
March 29, 2026
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
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