Words of wisdom from the 37th president of the United States, taken from his series of interviews with David Frost + more
Words of wisdom from the 37th president of the United States, taken from his series of interviews with David Frost + more
So Georgia and Alabama are playing in the college football national championship tonight, I guess? (Sorry—I can’t even feign interest + more
Did I manage to let 2021 slip by without my annual list of music recommendations? Somebody should probably fire me. + more
“In its prime, from around 1200 to 1550, Great Zimbabwe was home to about 10,000 people. The state covered 1,779 + more
Happy 2022, everyone. What are the odds we’ll still be around to ring in 2023? I’m guessing somewhere around 11/10. + more
Ten percent of U.S. electricity is generated from old Russian nuclear warheads. It took two ad creatives all of 45 + more
The overall COVID death rate for men is 1.6 times higher than that for women. (Fight the matriarchy!) Side note: + more
Remember a while back when I admitted having a crush on Suzanne “Diva of the Diode” Ciani? (Sure, you’ve got + more
Science nerds, rejoice! River Runner enables you to “drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where + more
In his diary entry for October 8, 1995, Brian Eno may have hit on something truly profound: “Starting to think + more
Bidding on a first-edition copy of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations commences in five days. Fewer than a thousand + more
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook’s The Rest Is History, a twice-weekly podcast, is just the sort of thing we need + more
Maybe it’s my age, but it seems increasingly difficult to be sanguine about, well…pretty much anything, really. Even my wife, + more
Speaking of Charlie Watts (you didn’t think I’d let his death pass without saying something, did you?), I think Jack + more