History Today
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3 min · · Scene from The New Art and Mystery of Gossiping, Being a Genuine Account of All the Women’s Clubs in and about the City and Suburbs of London, c.1760. British Library Board. *** What follows will be… · Shared by 2921, including Tactical Tech, Dr Ellie Murray, ScD, Howard Getson, Rick Powell, Jane, Beate Jordaan
Big Think
A very short history of the F-word
6 min · · The oldest unambiguous use of the F-word comes from De Officiis, a treatise on moral conduct by Cicero. No, the Roman philosopher didn’t gift English its soon-to-be favorite obscenity. Rather, in… · Shared by 897, including Rick Powell
blog.stephsmith.io
Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
15+ min · · Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get… · Shared by 879, including Lynda, LoriBeth, Hampus Jakobsson, Thomas Power, Matthew Turland, Marty Cagan, Ilia Markov, pizza.lottie 🍕, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Ines Bieler, Rick Powell, Michael Musgrove, Igor Varyvoda, Jochen Burkhard, Ceferino Díaz, Neil Hart 💙, Tauno
The Guardian
The 100 best books of the 21st century
20+ min · · Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000 · Shared by 640, including Jane, John Nosta, Esther Schindler, Richard Dawkins, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Brian Solis, Philipp Laurim, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Juliana de Albuquerque | @ajuliana@mas.to, Daniel Nova, Chris Bertram, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jonathan Kogan, Aamir Raz, Dr Nasima Riazat, Brad Brooks, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Bill Johnston, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Aeon+Psyche
Mental disorders are brain disorders
8 min · · The most vital quandary of mental health disorders and therapies today is not whether they change the brain but how · Shared by 569, including Ceferino Díaz, Dr. Andy, Tim, Rick Powell
Fast Company
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram. They may be the future
3 min · · Last year, the New York Public Library released an experiment to put the full text of novels in its Instagram Stories. Today, an estimated 300,000 people are reading books this way. · Shared by 181, including Charles Adler, Tom Connor, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Joseph Finder, Kevin Kruse, Sue B. The Instagram Expert📲, Jessica Gioglio, Katja Evertz, NY Public Library, Ines Bieler, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, John Koetsier, Gianluca Diegoli, Nick Floro, Damien Van Achter, Sprout Social, Fanzo
Nautilus Magazine
The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
5 min · · The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph… · Shared by 141, including Rick Powell, Charles Baldwin, Jakob Bronebakk, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
The Guardian
'Would you be willing?': words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid)
9 min · · Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, or see you in a new light · Shared by 141, including Jacob du Toit, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Nir Eyal, @mainec@fromm.social, Thomas Wong, Rick Powell, Matthias «Delay» Göbel
The Atlantic
A Rare Universal Pattern in Human Languages
2 min · · Some languages are spoken more quickly than others, but the rate of information they get across is the same. · Shared by 136, including Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, hiten.eth, Howard Getson, Rick Powell, Liliane Ferrari ™, Tauno, Antonio Vieira Santos, Faik Ersoy, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon
Oxford University Press
Language history and we: the case of "like"
5 min · · The Oxford Etymologist considers "like" as discussed in Valerie Fridland's "Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English." · Shared by 121, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
Opinion | How the N-Word Became Unsayable
10 min · · The evolution of the slur's use — and the taboo around it — tells a story about what our culture values. · Shared by 82, including Christina Hoff Sommers, Rick Powell, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Shermer, cecile noemie, Steven Pinker, Mathew Ingram
Literary Hub
How the World’s Languages Evolved Over Time
· Shared by 75, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Rick Powell
Ryan Holiday
How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
· The other day I was reading a book and I came across a little anecdote. It was about the great Athenian general Themistocles. Before the battle of Salamis, he was locked in a vigorous debate with a Spartan general about potential strategies for defeating the Persians. Themistocles was clearly in the minority with his views […] · Shared by 75, including David Garner, Alexandra Wong, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Vitor Furtado Silva, Rick Powell
UX Collective
Forget the computer — here’s why you should write and design by hand
11+ min · · “The hand is the window on to the mind.” — Immanuel Kant · Shared by 72, including KOstas, Design Shack, Center Centre – UIE, Rick Powell, UX Mastery, Fabricio Teixeira, tcherno, Nick Floro, Nadieh Bremer, Nick Finck
The Atlantic
The Unheeded Message of ‘1984’
9 min · · George Orwell meant his novel to be a warning, not a prediction—and that warning is relevant in new and unsettling ways. · Shared by 57, including Esther Schindler, Econlib, Noely ⚡️🏐, Rick Powell, George M 🇪🇺, Scott McLeod, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Tauno
The New York Times
Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
9 min · · As fake and illegitimate texts proliferate online, books are becoming a form of misinformation. The author of “1984” would not be surprised. · Shared by 53, including Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Rick Powell, Craig Brown, PhD, Marsha Collier, Liv 😷, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis PhD, Jane, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Esther Schindler