Polymath (n): A person who has extensive knowledge in many different areas
In the last two posts, I discussed people attempting to ban the uses of colors. But what if you wanted to create colors rather than ban them? One of the challenges which has plagued artists and designers throughout the centuries is color. Or, to be more specific, the replication of precise colors. After all, it’s Read More …
My last post was originally meant to be a lead-in to this trivia factoid. But by the time I started writing the last post, I realized that the story of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was worthy of being a post in its own right. And so, I decided to split today’s trivia Read More …
Unfortunately, last week I was doing a significant amount of traveling last week for work and the holiday weekend, and didn’t really have the time (read: energy) to post my normal trivia. But don’t worry, I’ll be making up for it with extra posts. For the past few years, FIFA (the Fédération Internationale de Football Read More …
There’s not much better than getting home from a long day, and cracking open a cold drink. Of course, I’m talking about soda. What else would I be talking about? Personally, my favorite soda is Dr. Pepper. Entry 003 discussed some early history of Dr Pepper, and you can look forward to another post featuring Read More …
Before I started doing this trivia newsletter, I was running a mini trivia game on my friend’s Discord server. At that time, I started curating a list of good trivia facts to use. Whenever I find something I think would make a good topic, I add it to my list. Currently, my list has almost Read More …
Before we begin with this week’s trivia, I must say that I am very disappointed in all of you. Not a single person turned in their homework assignment! At the end of last week’s post, I mentioned that you should try to create a pangram of your own, but I didn’t get any submissions. For Read More …
In the last trivia post I made, I discussed lipograms, writing something that does not contain a specific letter (or letters). Fans of etymology will note that the word “lipogram” contains the Greek (via PIE) roots for “to leave” and “letter”. Well then, how about the opposite? If we had all the letters, that would Read More …
Hello, yes, it’s me again. I know, I know, I missed last week’s newsletter (don’t worry, you’ll get an extra later). Sometimes it’s difficult to pick a topic to write about for one of these, and so I delay a bit. After all, I know that the real reason you read these is for my Read More …
When it comes to the history of science, we owe a lot to the ancient philosophers who spent their lives debating the nature of the world around them. There were some philosophers who were on the right track, millennia before the evidence vindicated them. For example, Aristarchus of Samos is the first known author to Read More …
When I was a kid growing up, I loved watching science documentaries of all kinds. A rather popular topic was any variation on DOOM FROM THE SKIES – how we’re going to be destroyed by xyz astronomical event. It’s pretty easy to write a show around how the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact Read More …
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