“String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions.” → The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

I’d never really thought about this…and now I can’t stop thinking about it. → Bilingual Authors are Challenging the Practice of Italicizing Non-English Words

The language at the end of the Earth || Pairs with: Why no-one speaks Indonesia’s language

Coin-Op Eye Candy → coinop_london

“With the aid of a Georgetown law student, Genevieve Bentz, he [John Mikhail] embarked on a lexicological odyssey into dozens of long-forgotten dictionaries, published over a 200-year period before 1806, 40 regular dictionaries and 10 legal dictionaries” → Trump’s ’emoluments’ battle: How a scholar’s search of 200 years of dictionaries helped win a historic ruling

I’m unsure whether sharing this is the right thing to do. It is definitely challenging to see. → Willoughby Wallace Hooper: Photographer of Death

Sometimes I read about physics and math that I barely (to be generous) understand. But still…octonions? → The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

I want to be there. → Ye Oldest Public Library in the English Speaking World

Wikipedia page of the week: an internationally published Siamese cat. → F. D. C. Willard

Today in 1966, singer, songwriter, painter and future Nobel Prize in Literature winner Robert Allen Zimmerman—better known as Bob Dylan—crashes his motorcycle near Woodstock, New York. Or does he? In any case, Dylan didn’t perform publicly for years and took the opportunity to both reshape his image and record some powerful songs that would emerge years later on The Basement Tapes.