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A stupendous photo of wave-like structures in Saturn’s rings…and the story behind it. || Pairs with an amazing photo of the starry sky as seen in Finland. || And how about the most arresting images of Jupiter I’ve ever seen?
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Investigations range in subject from George Bush and the Prime Minister of Pakistan to Justin Timberlake… → Meet the Font Detectives
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Palimpsests! → Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Continuously Run Libraries [back in 2014, it was the WORD]
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Mondegreens! → I don’t even know if vaseline is edible. [perhaps the most famous example of a mondegreen is hearing Jimi Hendrix’s lyric as “excuse me while I kiss this guy.”] || See also, the classic Science Behind Mondegreens.
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Eggcorns! → The Eggcorn Database [Eggcorns are similar to mondegreens (misheard lyrics) but aren’t part of songs. For instance, “Holland days” instead of “Hollandaise” sauce.]
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Reading lists! → More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism || 100 Great Works OF Dystopian Fiction || 2017 National Book Awards longlists
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Thousands of examples of main titles from films as far back as 1920. → The Movie Title Stills Collection
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“When you memorize, you start to notice the things that you notice, your own habits of attention, your habits of reading.” → Memorize That Poem
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“A collaborative project with almost 90 artists and one instruction: look up.” → One Sky
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Today in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland to Philadelphia. Tubman’s brothers Ben and Harry accompanied her at first but had second thoughts, so Tubman accompanied them home before making her own escape. Not content to remain safely in the North, Tubman returned to the South many times, eventually guiding more than 60 slaves—including her parents and many siblings—to freedom. After the Civil War, Tubman settled on a small property sold to her by the abolitionist senator William Seward (yes, he of Seward’s Folly fame), establishing a family center and eventually a rest home before her death in 1913.