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I’m an unashamed member of #TeamSpeed when it comes to most audiobooks and podcasts. I am not alone in this ‘overclocking’.
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There’s something beautifully weird and obsessive about Waclaw Szpakowski’s “labrynthine” single-line drawings.
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Speaking of the beautiful weird, have a listen to Emil Amos’ Drifter’s Sympathy show.
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Play The Great Language Game and see what languages you recognize.
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Browse The Food Lab’s Top 30 Hot Sauces. My favorites are all in there except WUJU. Any others missing?
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Thanks, Reader B. for sharing an intriguing story On Dracula’s Lost Icelandic Sister Text.
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From Reader C., some links that should convince even the crustiest Clamorites that Twitter can be useful: @medievalpoc, featuring fascinating information about people of color in European Art History, and @discarding_imgs, routinely sharing tasty medieval images.
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Remembering NĂ¼shu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write
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It’s a good day for sweets and the sweetums who love ’em: on this day in 1906, Kellogg’s is founded as the “Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company,” an offshoot of the Kellogg brothers work at a religion-based sanitarium (T.C. Boyle’s fabulous book Road to Wellville is based on this history); today in 1913, more than 100 years after its debut, Cracker Jack began putting toys in their tasty, eponymous product; and today in 1985, Cherry Coke is rolled out to the public a few years after a very successful taste test at the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.