Our Semiquincentennial As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of […]

Olé, Olé, Olé With the World Cup soccer tournament getting underway in North America, we […]

Time Flies The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, was not the first literary work involving […]

Are we Living in a Post-Truth Era? Hans Rosling, through his lectures and his book […]

Under the Big Top Giuliano Plorutti’s book of photographs of small-town circuses, which we found […]

Refuse Refuse! After some debate, we decided to introduce a “meta-clue” into this week’s acrostic […]

First World Problems NEWS FLASH! Jim Horne, who runs the www.xwordinfo.com site on which many […]

Play Ball! With Opening Day close at hand, we heartily recommend Jane Leavy’s 2025 Make […]

Holy Oil Marco Polo was not the first member of his family to venture along […]

Lack of Immunity Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies made […]