Literary Hub
How did alphabet books tackle the letter ‘x’ before x-rays and xylophones?
1 min read · Jun 13th · The most common entries for ‘x’ in alphabet books nowadays are probably ‘x-ray’ and ‘xylophone’—based on anecdotal evidence only, someone do this research please…
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Polr
1 min read · From 2017 · Polr is a quick, modern, and open-source link shortener. It allows you to host your own URL shortener, to brand your URLs, and to gain control over your data. It's also GPLv2+ licensed. Polr is…
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The Great Debasement
~16 min read · May 26th · The institutions tasked with the preservation of art are reducing great works to moralizing message-delivery systems
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Neuroscience News
An Intriguing Connection Between Diet, Eye Health, and Lifespan
4 min read · Jun 7th · A new study of drosophila reveals a link between circadian rhythm, diet, lifespan, and eye health. Unexpectedly, researchers found processes in the fly eye that appear to drive the aging process.
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Impotence and Overripe Grapes: Cultural Decadence in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry
20+ min read · Jun 1st · A wartime exile in his own country, Czesław Miłosz translated The Waste Land against “the glow from the burning ghetto.” This, for the Polish poet, made for “weird reading”: T. S. Eliot’s eulogy for…
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Internet Archive
The Gnole Magical Bestseller
Jun 1st · Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.115503dc.contributor.author: Not Availabledc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-02T15:12:48Zdc.date.available:...
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Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site
20+ min read · May 31st · World Record Dive On Wednesday, August 15, 1934, William Beebe and Otis Barton made themselves world famous by descending in their "Bathysphere" 3,028 feet beneath the ocean surface. 2009 marked the…
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Fomenko A.T. MATHEMATICAL IMPRESSIONS
2 min read · May 26th · AMS (American Mathematical Society), USA,Provedence, 1990. Dedicated to my parents, Valentina Polikarpovna and Timofei Grigor'evich Fomenko "I think of my drawings as if they were photographs of a…
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The Magnificent Ambersons (US 1942)
10 min read · May 26th · Produced at the RKO Studio and scripted and directed by Orson Welles; this film is a flawed classic, missing about forty minutes of the original version. It is screening on BBC 4 this coming Thursd…
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Thought-Terminating Clichés
2 min read · Mar 2nd · A "thought-terminating cliché" (TTC) is a phrase or argument typically used to end a debate, generally by leveraging a phrase that sounds meaningful, but is actual just a superficial means of ending…
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It's Nice That
“Think LOL but more obscure”; Pentagram’s Michael Bierut designs The FBI Guide to Internet Slang
1 min read · Mar 10th · Also featuring two custom typefaces from Matt Willey, the project is based on an official 83-page glossary put together by the FBI to help decipher the most obscure social media chatter imaginable.
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Home - Believer Magazine
1 min read · May 16th · See More... Interviews Schemas Comics The Field More
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Art in the Stacks: Dewey-inspired artwork
1 min read · May 16th · Back in February 2020, I visited a library in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis to see their Dewey-inspired art, and I'm finally taking a moment to share what I saw! The Anoka County Library has…
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Naming and Indexicality
~11 min read · May 16th · In 2022, five decades will have passed since the first publication of Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity and the beginning of the referentialist r...
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Watch This When You're High - Stanley Kubrick and The Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory, The "Wendy Theory", and The Occult
3 min read · May 16th · Thanks for the suggestion from @twonbit on this one. Kubrick was a pretty fascinating guy while he was alive and remains so since his passing.Rogan did a deep dive on Kubrick and the moon landing…
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