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The Boise Public Library has installed a vending machine for personal, handwritten letters. → The Letter Box Project
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Salvador Dali’s body to be exhumed to resolve paternity case
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Sometimes you just need a little good news (and if the comment(er)s are lousy, don’t tell me about it). → Strangers buy car for 20-year-old Texas man who walks 3 miles to work every day
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And the data are in…yay scIEnce. → The ‘i before e, except after c’ rule is a giant lie
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8 compelling cats that changed Russian culture. [Thanks, Reader A.!]
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Up a wombat’s freckle: Barry Humphries on the development of Australian slang [Thanks, Reader B.!]
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Baby steps… → How to capture videos of brains in real time: Watching mice think as they walk
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The Cognitive Bias Codex visually organizes more than 180 ways we “think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment.”
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Highlights from the most recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, including “woke,” a new sense of “thing” (originating, in recorded form at least, on the television show The West Wing), the “particle zoo,” and “post-truth.”
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Today in 1990, 1,426 people are suffocated and trampled to death in a tunnel near Mecca during the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. The stampede started when seven people fell from a pedestrian bridge onto pilgrims exiting the tunnel below, causing panic exacerbated by failed ventilation in the 110°F heat. Amazingly, this wasn’t the most deadly such incident: at least 2,236 pilgrims were killed in the 2015 “Mina Stampede.”
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