fun facts

What’s a snootful?

I learned this word recently from Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. It means “enough alcoholic liquor to cause drunkenness.” | learn more

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Why are you still single?

“In 1889, Tit-Bits magazine offered a prize to the spinster who could provide the best answer to the question: Why are you still single? The results proved far too hilariously on point for the magazine to choose just a single […]

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The greatest trader who ever lived

Twice this week the book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator came up in conversation. I read the book in college and liked it, but it drove me away from stock trading rather than towards. Many career traders had the opposite response. The […]

on the blockchain

A death in Cryptoland

“When reports emerged in 2019 that the CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange had died, it left over a quarter of a billion dollars of customers’ funds in limbo. While authorities investigated, one online sleuth decided to dig deeper to […]

under the microscope

The truth about young blood

This 2017 interview with UC Berkeley researchers Mike and Irina Conboy clears up some of the popular misconceptions around young blood and aging. You may have heard of their study that stitched together and old and young rat to learn […]