What’s the Difference Between Sleet, Hail, Graupel, and Wintry Mix?

No matter what background or tradition or religion or belief system you identify with, I think we can all agree: when crazy stuff starts falling from the sky, things get weird. Tur read more

No matter what background or tradition or religion or belief system you identify with, I think we can all agre read more

What’s the Difference Between Broccolini, Broccoli Rabe, and Chinese Broccoli?

I know, I know. There are few newsletter topics as sexy as cruciferous vegetables—especially the brethren of the classic eat-your-vegetables vegetable, broccoli. But just how w read more

I know, I know. There are few newsletter topics as sexy as cruciferous vegetables—especially the brethren of read more

What’s the Difference Between an Orchestra, Symphony, and Philharmonic?

If you’re like me, feeling cultured feels good. There are few sensations as pleasant as learning something new, or exploring a different place, or doing something that expands yo read more

If you’re like me, feeling cultured feels good. There are few sensations as pleasant as learning something n read more

What’s the Difference Between Four-Wheel Drive and All-Wheel Drive?

It’s winter, people, which means fuzzy socks and hot chocolate and snuggling on your couch to watch not one, but TWO documentaries about the Fyre Festival. It also means single d read more

It’s winter, people, which means fuzzy socks and hot chocolate and snuggling on your couch to watch not one, read more

What’s the Difference Between Russian and Thousand Island Dressing?

If you’ve frequented a salad bar recently—or returned from a quick jaunt from, say, the 1950s—you may recall a bowl or two of pink, florescent dressing with some chopped-up s read more

If you’ve frequented a salad bar recently—or returned from a quick jaunt from, say, the 1950s—you may re read more

What’s the Difference Between Lotion and Moisturizer?

It’s the new year, people, which means it’s time for green tea and grain bowls and Meditation and Self Care. It’s time to treat ourselves to feeling good; it’s time to mas read more

It’s the new year, people, which means it’s time for green tea and grain bowls and Meditation and Self Car read more

What’s the Difference Between Spruce, Fir, and Pine Trees?

Merry Christmas! Chances are, if you’re celebrating the holiday, you have a tree hanging out indoors somewhere, festooned in lights and popcorn and ornaments and whatever else yo read more

Merry Christmas! Chances are, if you’re celebrating the holiday, you have a tree hanging out indoors somewhe read more

What’s the Difference Between a Bug and an Insect?

Welcome to What’s the Difference, the newsletter committed to bringing you a decisive hit of random, wholly unseasonal knowledge in spite of the thrum of season’s greetings an read more

Welcome to What’s the Difference, the newsletter committed to bringing you a decisive hit of random, wholly read more

What’s the Difference Between Sour Cream and Crème Fraîche?

Happy Hanukkah! We may have been taught that this holiday was about celebrating resistance, courage, victory over oppression, the miracle of the Maccabees’ everlasting oil... but read more

Happy Hanukkah! We may have been taught that this holiday was about celebrating resistance, courage, victory o read more