cincture /SEENK-chər/. noun or verb. A girdle or a belt. More generally, something that encircles or surrounds. From Latin cinctura(girdle), from cingere (to gird, surround).
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Links: July 1, 2018
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“4. I realized that the feeling a man preserves longest is anger. There is only enough flesh on a hungry man for anger: everything else leaves him indifferent.” → from Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag [Thanks, Reader B.]
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Below the Surface is an amazing project documenting tens of thousands (of more than 700,000) artifacts uncovered during a systematic excavation of Amsterdam’s central River Amstel, a central artery in the city for millennia.
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RFID Machines in British Libraries Are Producing Charming Found Poetry [Thanks, Reader S.]
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“Swearing was a litmus test […] Swearing could unite people.” → “Damn your blood”: Swearing in early modern English
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“The arts of memory are among the arts of thinking, especially involved with fostering the qualities we now revere as ‘imagination’ and ‘creativity.'” → Mary Carruthers (and Alan Jacobs) on memorization
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Isochrone maps depict time on maps, such as this fascinating map by Francis Galton showing just how large the world was in 1881 (with the center being London, naturally).
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“How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail” → How one man went from hunting meteorites to being hunted by the law
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Beautiful. → Daniel Mercadante’s long exposure light paintings
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Some happy news: After searching for years, Wisconsin woman learns her sister lives next door || Harrogate bookshop tweets about dismal sales and sets a sales record || Teenage Girl Helps a Blind and Deaf Passenger
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Today in 1916 is the first—and deadliest—day in the four-and-a-half-month long World War 1 Battle of the Somme. Ultimately the largest battle on the Western Front, with more than 70,000 casualties on this day alone—the Battle of the Somme would end only after more than one million wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles of all time. While undeniably the beginning of modern warfare, and the introduction of the British forces to this kind of combat, the strategic value of this most-costly battle remains in dispute to this day.
The Letter Carrier
The directorial debut of Jesse L. Martin and Rick Cosnett, this “chilling fable […] depicts one family’s struggle for freedom from slavery.” → ► The Letter Carrier
Kit-Kat Sushi
Sarah Orne Jewett
The wood-road was not a place for common noisy conversation; one would interrupt the birds and all the still little beasts that belonged there. But it was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
—from “A Dunnett Shepherdess”
—found in The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction (1896)
eristic
eristic /ə-RIS-tik/. adjective or noun. Of, given, or relating to, argument, particularly argument for its own sake. A person who engages in such (usually tedious) debates. From Greek eristikos, from erizein (wrangle), from eris (strife). In Greek mythology, Eris was the goddess of discord and discontent.
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Links: June 24, 2018
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“We think the next school shooter could be your son.” → Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter
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There may be no end to Mr. Rogers’ awesomeness, generally, but most definitely in his amazing ear for language. → Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
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When linguistics and science and chart nerdery unite → Phonetic Periodic Table Poster
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Infantilizing? Maybe. Complicated? You bet. → Digital Wellness for Grown Ups
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Also…complicated. → The House Unanimously Passed a Bill to Make Child Sex Robots Illegal
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This one triggered some feels… → The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
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Today in Twitterbots, LMAO edition → Tweets by Wheel Of Fortune Answers (@wofanswers) via the excellent Pop Loser, “a weekly newsletter of innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair.”
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The lavishly illustated story of the beautiful Reforma font. Three fully featured families of typeface goodness. Did I mention that it’s free?
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Today in 1849, poet, novelist and short story writer Sarah Orne Jewett is born in South Berwick, Maine. Jewett began publishing at just 19, with stories—like her later longer work—notable for a keen ear for local color and dialogue. Often compared to Flaubert, and a strong influence on later writers including Willa Cather, Jewett’s 1909 New York Times obituary observed that she was “regarded as one of the foremost women writers of America,” and her reputation has only increased in the intervening years. For your reading pleasure, a baker’s dozen of Jewett’s books free on Project Gutenberg.
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