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An amazing collection of Record Label Logos.
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I dropped “Jeroboam of wine” into a conversation the other day (because that’s what I do). Then I needed to know more. Now you will too. → Why Are Extremely Large Wine Bottles Named after Biblical Kings?
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Preaching to the Clamor Choir here, but a nice pair of articles about reading and the brain: What’s Going On In Your Child’s Brain When You Read Them A Story? || Your Brain on Reading (Why Your Brain Needs You to Read Every Day)
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With at least 7000 glyphs (compared to fewer than 850 for Latin scripts that can be used to represent hundreds of languages), Chinese fonts are just as awesome and complicated as you would expect.
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I think it’s possible to embrace the idea of cultivating quiet time and even that some technologies tend to have more negative effects on our (or at least my) inner landscape without buying wholesale into the “technology is ruining our brains” market. → Why we owe it to ourselves to spend quiet time alone every day. See also: Bored and Brilliant and Being Bored Is Fun and Good, Sorry.
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And I thought learning that porcupines could climb trees was scary… → New Research Shows That T-Rex Was as Smart as a Chimp
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Kids these days, with their smart phones and their globe and paper making, leather-working and clog-cobbling.
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Twenty years after finding a newborn, buried alive with his umbilical cord still attached, the jogging rescuer is reunited with him.
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The 100 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of The Great Gatsby || Pairs well with Report: John Grisham Slowly But Surely Climbing List Of Greatest Living American Authors Thanks, Reader B.
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Today in 1894, Dashiell Hammett, premiere author of hard-boiled detective novels and stories, is born on a farm in Saint Mary’s County, Maryland. Hammett wasn’t just one of the best, iconic authors of tough-guy mystery fiction, but one of America’s best prose stylists, evidenced in books such as The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon as well as indelible short stories including “Corkscrew” and “Nightmare Town. A dedicated anti-fascist, Hammett managed—despite being a disabled veteran of World War I with tuberculosis—to re-enlist during World War II, where he served in the Aleutians. Incidentally, if you can get there, the Aleutian World War II Museum and the bunkers in Dutch Harbor are extraordinary.