Welcome to Friday,
What a week! I am about knee-deep in books and articles on folklore and Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. My annual Sleepy Hollow post will go up next week, and I’m particularly excited to share this one with you.
In the meantime, the best from around the Internet.
The world’s largest four-day work week experiment is winding down and showing positive results. Of the hundreds of companies involved, 88% said the change is working well for their business.
The first known map of the night sky was recently uncovered in a collection of parchment manuscripts.
Does speaking English as a default produce bias in cognitive science?
I trust most of my readers have already gotten quite a start on their personal libraries, but this piece did bring together some clever ideas. I especially liked the author’s thoughts about compiling your own person “classics” section and allowing those titles to lead you to unexpected new titles. Pair with LitHub‘s piece on how several authors organize their own personal libraries.
Finally, selected entries from Jack Kerouac’s journal documenting the summer of 1956, when he manned a fire lookout tower.
Currently reading: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by Washington Irving
Image credit: “Spooky Screech Owl”, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1919.
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