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Irish papyrus

Here’s an amazing find: The find – which has become known as the Faddan More Psalter – was a fragmented illuminated vellum manuscript encased in an unusual leather binding, a book of psalms dating back...

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Dam goats

No, there isn’t a missing “n”. Apparently, they find salt and other mineral deposits to lick. Via Astropixie. Follow

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Heffer lumped

Two splendid reviews of Simon Heffer’s book about The Correct Way to Write, both pdfs by actual, real linguists: David Crystal and Geoff Pullum. Let me quote the opening paragraph of the latter: Simon...

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Octopodes

The plural of “octopus”. At least, a plural of “octopus”: Via. Follow

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Letters of note

One for the Reader: this blog reprints letters from famous people. Here’s one from Marilyn Munroe, in hospital after being sprung from a padded cell by her ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio, a year before her...

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Arthur C Clarke’s shortest story

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Carl Sagan and Benjamin Franklin on women

Both from Letters of Note. Sagan first, from 1981. The Explorers Club was continuing to accept women members, so Sagan wrote as follows – in belated acknowledgement of International Women’s Day I’ll...

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Intoxicating Marula

The fruit from this tree ferments in the bellies of the animals that eat them. Then they get pissed, in rather human ways… Follow

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Letter to The Times

From Alfred Wintle, dated 6th February 1946: From Lt. Col. A.D. Wintle. The Royal Dragoons Cavalry Club 127 Piccadilly W.1. To the Editor of The Times. Sir, I have just written you a long letter. On...

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Tau versus pi

The nice thing about this mathematical controversy is that everyone can understand it. Τ (tau) equals Π times two. The circumference of a circle is 2Πr where r is radius of that circle, so it also...

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