Notable Contributors
- A.J. Jacobs contributed articles based on what he has learned after reading the entire Encyclopædia Britannica, as described in his book The Know-It-All.
- Ken Jennings, of Jeopardy fame, writes a feature each issue called Six Degrees of Ken Jennings, in which he plays the game Six degrees of separation with two people or things that are unrelated except by the way they sound, like Benedict XVI and Benedict Arnold or Isaac Newton and Apple Computer.
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