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The STRONG LANGUAGE blog is a “Sweary blog about swearing” (NSFW, naturally). Highlights include Mapping the United Swears of America & the followup Sweary maps 2: Swear harder, Donald Trump swears a lot and “More man? Plague, plague!”: How to curse like a misanthrope.
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Technology killed bookstore chains. Can technology save indie bookstores?
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The Terrible Beauty of Californian Wildfires, as Seen by David McNew
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Stick that in your cup and drink it… → InStem study finds cockroach milk is next superfood
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“Fantasies about the future have a troubling effect on achieving actual goals. If positive thinking doesn’t work, what does?” → Don’t Think Too Positive.
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“We are reduced to quarter rations and no coffee,” he continued. “And nobody can soldier without coffee.” → If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered U.S. Soldiers Some Salvation
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The archives of Randall Munroe’s archives of his What If (Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions) series are a great browse [Thanks, Reader A.!]. I recommended the book a few years ago…and still do!
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Once all but left for dead, is cursive handwriting making a comeback?
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The always awesome Atlas Obscura now has a podcast! And don’t forget their forthcoming book.
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Today in 1703, Daniel Defoe is pilloried (literally, as in the stocks’ harsher sibling), for publishing his pamphlet The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church in which he satirized Queen Anne’s actions against the non-conformists (“…people in the World, who, now they are unperched, and reduced to an equality with other people, and under strong and very just apprehensions of being further treated as they deserve…”), arguing they should simply be exterminated (“Crucify the Thieves!”).