It's been exactly two months since my last links-a-palooza of great articles to check out online. This should help you get through the rest of the summer.
- Wired: "Fantastically Wrong: Ridiculous Mythical Critters Dreamed Up by 19th Century Lumberjacks" by Matt Simon
- Smithsonian Magazine: "When Copy and Paste Reigned in the Age of Scrapbooking: Today’s obsession with posting material to Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter has a very American history" by Clive Thompson
- Unlikely Story: "All of Our Past Places" by Kat Howard [Excerpt: "Places disappear from maps all the time. Maps from today will not include Czechoslovakia, East Germany, or the Free Independent Republic of West Florida. There are reasons for these disappearances: places choose new names, wars are fought, peace is won. It sounds simple, but it isn’t. We say the borders of countries are just lines on a map, but places run deeper in us than that."]
- The Dissolve: "We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome" by Tasha Robinson
- My Inside Voices: "Growing up with Robin Williams" by Susan Jennings
- The New York Times: "Who Knows How This Column Will End?" by Tom Vanderbilt (A fun essay that includes a nice mention of Richard Brautigan.)
- FiveThirtyEight: "What Makes Nigel Richards The Best Scrabble Player On Earth" by Oliver Roeder
- The Appendix: "Party Like It’s 1999: Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger" by Michael P. Williams
- The New York Times: "$11 Billion Later, High-Speed Rail Is Inching Along" by Ron Nixon
- Los Angeles Review of Books: "Puppet Shows in a Swimming Pool: Surrealism, Punk, Poetry, and Contemporary Folklore According to Iceland’s Sjón" by Alex Baumhardt
- The Atlantic: "How Fonts Reveal the Many New Users of the Internet" by Nikhil Sonnad
- The Classical: "The Game Is To Be Sold: The Long Legal Battle For 'Skee-Ball'" by Sean Hojnacki
- The New York Times: "A Game as Literary Tutorial: Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers" by Ethan Gilsdorf
- The Atlantic: "Down but Not Out: The Uncertain Future of the Crossword Puzzle" by Tanya Basu
- MailOnline: "Incredible sight of the elephant that cried: Raju was held in chains, beaten and abused for fifty years and on the day he was released tears rolled down his face" by Emma Glanfield
- Smithsonian Magazine: "The Amazing (If True) Story of the Submarine Mechanic Who Blew Himself Up Then Surfaced as a Secret Agent for Queen Victoria" by Mike Dash
- The Baltimore Sun: "Greetings from Havre de Grace, and around the world: Mary L. Martin's family business collecting and selling postcards is world-renowned — and massive" by Kevin Rector
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