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I’ve never been a particular fan of his acting, but Hanks sure seems like a good guy… → Tom Hanks is coming out with short fiction anthology revolving around typewriters
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The Forked Tongue Map is an interactive graphic that lets you explore—with graphics, video and text—59 endangered languages spoken in Queens, NY (in which there are an astonishing 500+ languages spoken in total).
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Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs | Atlas Obscura [before you complain about “another Atlas Obscura link,” read the comments below].
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In the longest such study ever conducted, what some might consider common sense is confirmed…our personalities when we are “old” are basically nothing like when we are teens. → Personality Stability From Age 14 to Age 77 Years
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Every Noise at Once is an “an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space.” In other words, a massive, interactive map of musical genres from opera to deep tech house…and seemingly everywhere else.
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Turns out, there’s more to the Mall of America than meets the eye. → Writer-in-Residence – Mall of America
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Speaking of quintessentially American writing → Walt Whitman’s lost novel The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle found
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Today in 1616, Galileo Galilei is officially banned by the Roman Catholic Church from promoting, teaching or defending his heretical view that the Earth orbits the Sun. Officially, he is to “abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it… to abandon completely… the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.” Galileo didn’t relent and in 1633 was put on trial for heresy, threatened with torture and finally sentenced to indefinite house arrest, which he remained under until his death in 1642. Pope John Paul II officially “rehabilitated” Galileo in 1992. Fortunately, the Flat Earth Society is still fighting the good fight.