Words & Numbers · Steve Krause

A part of Klaus Krause’s astrophilatelic collection My father, Klaus Krause, celebrated the Space Age as it was happening.

In 2025, ChatGPT couldn’t stop itself from using the em dash—the punctuation mark before this phrase.

“Sherlock Holmes at Reichenbach Falls” by Frederick Dorr Steele, 1903 Sherlock Holmes is among the most recognized and loved fictional characters ever, rightly so.

From 1964 to 1968, popular band names went from a single dominant formula to a linguistic free-for-all.

In 2005, this blog’s first post was a little joke: an apology for not having posted in a while—since 14,789 BC.