Good Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
Take a gander at 800 years of English handwriting.
The BBC looks at the murder of forgotten U.S. president James Garfield.
On the magic of passport stamps.
Virginia Woolf on how one should read a book.
Quantifying the rise of mindless television.
Currently reading: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
Have a creative weekend.
Image: “A sarus crane, a flamingo, a wild bronze turkey cock, two Paduan fowl, a silver birchen game cockerel, and a hoopoe in a landscape”. Melchior d’Hondecoeter. 1675.
