6, 2015, at the New York Hall of Science. On December 5, 2016, Gimlet Media announced Jacobs as the host of Twice Removed, a podcast focused on genealogy. In June 2016, Gimlet announced that the podcast would not be renewed for a second season. In 2020, he is working on a book which reframes global issues as puzzles. In September, 2022, the New York Times published a story by Jacobs detailing a 1988 kayaking excursion in which he and his sister were lost overnight in the waterways of Glacier Bay National Park. They were eventually saved by an unknown group of campers on Kidney Island and a search seaplane rented by their father. Personal life Jacobs is married to Julie Schoenberg and has three sons: Jasper Kheel-Lime Jacobs (born March 11, 2004) and twins Zane and Lucas Jacobs (born August 24, 2006). Jacobs is a first cousin, once removed, of the legal scholar Cass Sunstein. Jacobs is a member of Giving What We Can and pledges 10% of lifelong earnings to charity. He donates to the Against Malaria Foundation and other effective altruism organizations. Bibliography Books 1996. America Off-Line: The Complete Outernet Starter Kit 2003. Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like 2005. The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World 2007. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (2007) 2010. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment 2012. Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection 2017. It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree 2018. Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey 2022. The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life Essays and reporting 2005. "My Outsourced Life", Esquire 2007. "I Think You're Fat", Esquire 2008. "My Life as a Hot Woman"', Esquire 2009. "The 9:10 to Crazyland", Esquire 2012. "How to Blurb and Blurb and Blurb", The New York Times 2012. "Overly Documented Life", Esquire 2013. "Grading the MOOC University", The New York Times References External links My Year of Living Biblically (TED Talk) The Importance of Self-Delusion in the Creative Process Talk How Healthy Living Nearly Killed Me (TED Talk) A.J. Jacobs on The Colbert Report (2009) A.J. Jacobs on The Dr. Oz Show (2012) American Society of Journalists and Authors 2013