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The World’s Next New Countries

Podcast Transcript Depending on how you define it, there are about 193 to 200 co...

The Cambridge Five Spy Ring

Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community wa...

The Prime Meridian

Podcast Transcript Located in East London is the Royal Greenwich Observatory.  P...

The Battle of Stalingrad

Podcast Transcript From August 1942 to February 1943, the Germans and the Soviet...

Maximizing American Express credit card rebates & credits

American Express credit card annual fees have continued to go up. And up. And up...

Last Chance Deals: IHG award sale, Klook Amex Offer, sh...

Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of...

Earning Avios on United, fun facts for the EuroBonus Mi...

Happy Saturday everyone! This random collection of brow-raising headlines includ...

(Expired) 20% Transfer Bonus from Chase Ultimate Reward...

Update 2/10/25: Despite the promo saying that this bonus would be good until 3/3...

How to use JetBlue points to book TAP Air Portugal awar...

You can now book TAP Air Portugal awards with JetBlue points. We’ll show you how...

Annual Review Coming Up! (2023 Edition)

This week I’m heading off-the-grid for the 2023 Annual Review trip. It’s a tradi...

2023 Annual Review: Back in Action, Big Changes for Nex...

*Big news: I’m making some changes! Starting January 1, a new yearlong project w...

Announcing: A Year of Mental Health

Happy New Year! Big announcement time: For all of 2024, I’ll be writing three ti...

New Posts on Mental Health and Purposeful Productivity

Greetings! Depending on how we’re connected, you may or may not have heard much ...

Time Anxiety and NeuroDiversion: a 2025 Preview

If you haven’t heard much from me this year, you might not be subscribed to my m...

Cruise into Totality: Eclipse Voyages for 2026

Prepare for an extraordinary voyage as the 2026 total solar eclipse sweeps acros...

My SAS EuroBonus Million Point Run: Lessons Learned

When I last left you, dear reader, I was back in North America, nearly at the mi...

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