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Minna Sundberg, author and artist of the dystopic serial comic Stand Still. Stay Silent created a beautifully realized visualization of the tree of human languages.
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Sometimes science fiction becomes reality, one small step at a time → Biomedical engineers connecting a human brain to the internet in real time || Also, another amazing (and beautiful) breakthrough: Scientists Can Now Repaint Butterfly Wings.
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I don’t really get the science, but the idea (and the metaphor) are seductive → Light Has Been Stored as Sound For The First Time.
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The interwebs have been abuzz with the news that Charlie (of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) was originally a black character…the New York Times has the detailed story.
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Even Racists Got the Blues (Thanks, Reader S.!)
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I’ll just leave this right here → A pile of trash in the ocean has grown to the size of France—and some people want it recognized as a nation
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Interesting history of a now-rarely-used word (though it was used by Chaucer and Shakespeare) and how it probably came to be written into Kim Jong-un’s speech (neukdari just doesn’t resonate) → What is the definition of ‘dotard,’ which North Korea called Trump?
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A compelling project that increases awareness of the beauty of endangered languages and maybe even contributes to saving some of them → the story of Tribalingual.
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Today is National Punctuation Day (for Clamorites in the US…the rest of you are spared), celebrating the useful and illogical rules alike and promoting irritating acts of pedantry. I enjoy apostrophe catastrophes as much as the next person, but for my own amusement at the daily struggle of communication, tempered by sympathy, much as I am entertained by—and feel great empathy with—kitchen disasters and cake wrecks. Sorry, all you Eats, Shoots & Leaves fans, for not sharing in the condescending vision of punctuation dystopia. But we can all still laugh and learn the conventions together: XKCD on hyphens, writing skills and a third way || The Oatmeal on semicolons and apostrophes.