“Given the inherent limits of most viral maps, you might expect professional cartographers to dislike them. But people who love maps love maps.” — “Bad Latitude” by Ben Blatt also for people who love maps and language: another article
“The city that Joyce portrays in Dubliners has both receded into the distant past and remained insistently visible; Dublin, like all cities, is a sort of palimpsest, in which the past is always and everywhere legible beneath the surface of … Continue reading
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, … Continue reading
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, … Continue reading
timelines of word use frequency in the State of the Union 1900-2104: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/2014-state-of-the-union/language-of-sotu/ This visualization makes it easy to see trends such as the slow uptick in themes like “jobs” and “family” and the sudden introduction of contractions (thank you, … Continue reading
