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Over and over again, throughout history and around the globe, people have asked what the world sits atop and come to the conclusion that it's a turtle. Science has begun to catch up. In the past few decades, studies have shown that many sea turtles do, indeed, carry a world—one exactly the size of their shell, and made up of algae and sponges, barnacles and mollusks, sea urchins and worms.

Cara Giaimo, There's a World Living on Every Loggerhead, Nautilus, July 2020

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The Soldiers’ Pocket Books That Legitimized Paperbacks

The Soldiers’ Pocket Books That Legitimized Paperbacks

“Here is something else that began during WWII that we now take for granted.” ~ GP Cox, Pacific Paratrooper

By Nicholas C. Rossis

Even though pamphlets and softcover books have been available in Europe since the 16th century, US readers looked down on them until well into the 20th century. As a recent Atlas Obscura post by Cara Giaimoexplains, without a mass-market distribution model in place, it…

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The Soldiers' Pocket Books That Legitimized Paperbacks

The Soldiers’ Pocket Books That Legitimized Paperbacks

Even though pamphlets and softcover books have been available in Europe since the 16th century, US readers looked down on them until well into the 20th century. As a recent Atlas Obscura post by Cara Giaimo explains, without a mass-market distribution model in place, it was difficult to make money selling inexpensive books.

Although certain brands succeeded by partnering with department stores,…

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Digging Through the Archives of Scarfolk, the Internet’s Creepiest Fake Town Haunted TV shows, surveillance owls, liver-based children's toys—nothing is too weird for Scarfolk. by Cara Giaimo…

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Zibaldone: Blogging 14th-century-style

It was the end of a particularly taxing day, and Canal, a prominent 14th-century Venetian merchant, was baffled. A friend had posed him a simple-sounding mathematical problem, but he still couldn’t figure it out. The problem went like this: the distance between Venice and Ancona is 200 miles, and there are two ships, one in each port, leaving on the same day. The trip to Venice takes 30 days,…

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One South Carolina editor covered a trio of duels in Camden in one week in 1817, and a visitor to New Orleans reported that in 1834, the city saw 'more duels then there are days in the year.' ... According to an account by British visitor Harriet Martineau, New Orleans's anti-dueling society apparently folded after a group of disagreeing members couldn't keep their pistols holstered during a meeting.

The Long Quest to Get Southerners to Stop Dueling