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2017

The Whole World’s Gone Nuts

The truly jaw-dropping line in this story about pet plastic surgery isn’t the one about botox for Dobermans’ ears. Nor + more

It’s the End of the World as We Know It

“Just as much as synthesizers, hairspray and record sleeves in the Russian abstract style,” writes Paul Genders at TLS Online, + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

Which pronoun is best when referring to a person: who or that? For a long time, I’ve labored under that + more

Quote of the Day

“No one ever taught me how to write, and I’ve never made a study of writing techniques. So how did + more

Miscellany

“Billy Joel, bald and glistening, looks like a big, smooth stone, as if the years and the sorrows, like so + more

Music for All Time

I vividly recall the thrill of discovering Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony—with Toscanini conducting the NBC orchestra and the Robert Shaw Chorale—as an eight-year-old + more

Assume Nothing

I’m really, really sorry to bring politics up. But this is pretty dang interesting. Someone restaged the 2016 Trump-Clinton debates with + more

Sign of the Times

Wandering the aisles of Target over the weekend, I came across this curiosity: a section of products developed for the + more

Proof of Purchase

Last weekend I ran across a receipt that tells a bit of a story from my days as a design student + more

Going Swimming? Urine for a Surprise

How much pee is in our swimming pools? Up to 75 liters, it turns out. Which seems like a lot—until + more

Odds and Ends from an “Arch-Genius”

David Gelernter, Yale University computer scientist and subject of one of the stupider (not to mention more lazily partisan) newspaper headlines in + more

Answering Life’s Important Questions

In an effort to “establish, once and for all, the absolute best fast food items in America” the fine folks + more

Miscellany

Happy Twin Peaks Day, everyone. Hearty recommendation: The History of English Podcast. I mean, dig this Indo-European Family Tree. Whatever + more

It’s Almost Like Magic

Here’s how an idea for an illustration begins. After copy is written, a super-quick chicken-scratch is created on literally any + more

The Coolest Story You’ll Read All Day

“As I scurried down a frost-covered slope into the cave, I couldn’t shake the distinct feeling that I was stepping + more

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