Today I Learned That In 36 BCE, Roman Statesman Marcus Varro Wrote One Of The Earliest Descriptions Of

The percentage of people from the world population capable of following a written argument is probably very small.

I saw a man this morning going from tree to tree, painstakingly painting each leaf of every tree yellow, red, and gold, one by one. I always wondered how they got that way.

whimsy is a virtue I think. one of the more important ones, especially if you're about to embark on a serious undertaking. and when things are getting distinctly unwhimsical in a situation it's generally a sign you ought to make yourself scarce.

Sonja Vordermaier; installation, Street Lamp Forest.

Petition for more websites to have a policy like Wikipedia, e.g., where anyone can easily download an entire copy of the site for offline use.

Mordor by Dmitry Yakhouski

Is there a better way to pass the time than collecting fun facts about various fields of science? I don't think so.

The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the only few bad things about Tolkien's legendarium is that it makes 90% of all other fantasy worlds look either completely or somewhat mediocre in comparison.

Like, what do you mean you don't have a fictional language for your fantasy world? WEAKLINGS