About Words IQ

Words IQ is a free email newsletter, with a companion website, dedicated to the ideas, stories, and facts worth knowing. Every issue is written to be worth your time — clear, useful, and genuinely interesting — and it lands in your inbox on a regular schedule.

Our goal is simple: give you something you're glad you read, every single time, without the noise. Each issue is also published here on the web so you can read, revisit, and share it.

Words IQ is published by Mediadealer. We're a small, independent operation — no giant media company, no clickbait quotas — just a focused publication built for the people who read it.

Questions, corrections, and advertising enquiries all reach a real person at [email protected].

Every article is researched, drafted with the help of AI tools, edited by a person, and checked against everything we've already published so we never run the same story twice. Articles link to their sources, and those links are verified before an issue goes out.

We've written the whole process down — including how we use AI and how to tell us we got something wrong — on our editorial standards page.

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