Welcome to Friday.
Here are five things of the best pieces I read this week.
Take some time for exploring the cosmos, and why our understanding of them is ‘almost certainly wrong‘.
“Irony is a useful tool because it cuts slanted, incisive lines that bend around corners, which makes it a peculiar choice when you demand straight lines.” How curious that the seemingly-infinite expansion of options for communication would result in the death of irony.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Scarry’s beautiful and beloved tome, Cars and Trucks and Things that Go.
The search continues for the rarest book in American literature, the Black Tulip, aka, Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane and Other Poems.
I was so happy to see an update on the Luddite teens of New York. (They still aren’t interested in your smartphones and algorithms.)
Currently reading: The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
Have a creative weekend.
Image: The Red Rose. Blackwell, Elizabeth. 1739.
