Fascinating images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Meet Roberto Scousia.
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Das geteilte Land – Looking at Germany after 25 years of union. Statistics show how much remains of the former East.
Spearfishing Orang-utan – A beautiful image of an Orang-utan on Borneo using a stick to try to hunt passing fish, presumably learned from watching nearby villagers.
Linguistic Ignorantisms – Nice list of words grammar nazis would find difficult to use with a straight face.
Further and Farther: A Theory – Go far and wide, go farrer and wider! Go forth and multiply, go further and multiplier!
Alice in a World of Wonderlands – A look at one of the most widely translated (untranslatable) works of literature in the world.
Some Rules of Language are Wired in the Brain – A Scientific American article shows how looking at synaesthesia might give some clues into our understanding of words.
Gorgeous time-lapse movie from across North America.
20 Signs You’re Doing Better Than You Think You Are – An asinine list, as described by one commenter, but a welcome reminder of how good most of us have it.
Translating Seinfeld – Or why Rowan Atkinson will always be Mr Bean rather than Mr Blackadder abroad.
The Internet in Real-Time – Watch the internet grow (and the giants skim off the cream).
Hemingway Editor – Write like Hemingway. Or gradually be nudged into being written like Hemingway?
The Colors We Eat – Tasting colours is for more than just synaesthetes.
The Mysterious Origins of Punctuation – An often overlooked side-effect of Gutenberg’s moveable type: stagnation in writing systems.