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Our latest issue, Energy, is now available online.

Releasing Energy

The table of contents for our new issue.

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Barbara Newhall Follett was a literary prodigy who published at 13 and disappeared at 25. http://t.co/Cb1FX8TNXv http://t.co/OybOmFB6aW

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The reading list of philosopher John Stuart Mill, ages 3-7.

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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” — Dorothy Parker, born on this day in 1893.

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“A message exchanged in 640 between two bishops in what is now southern France provides a glimpse of early medieval travel restrictions, evidence that humans had a more nuanced understanding of how to fight pandemics much earlier than is commonly assumed.”

Stay Home, All Ye Faithful

A letter from 640 proves that banning travel during an outbreak has been a long-standing practice.

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“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.” — Groucho Marx, born on this day in 1890.

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Notes in manuscripts and colophons made by medieval scribes and copyists.

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How British women deployed the teapot in a campaign against slavery.

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People who didn’t believe it at the time.

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It's Bloomsday! Take a wander through our Joyce archive: http://t.co/cV99V0Xk23 http://t.co/bDP7USjuM0

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair, born on this day in 1878.

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Eponymous laws.

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The Odyssey, if you strip away enough myth, might serve as a travel guide for the Aegean Sea: which islands to avoid if you hate escape rooms, which cruises to skip if you always forget to pack earplugs. But how does Odysseus’ trek map onto an actual map?

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Today on LQ: An excerpt from “American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World” by @ProenzaColes , now available from @newsouthbooks .

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A history of music notation.

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Eponymous laws, from Hubble's to Napoleon's to Badger’s:

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On this day in 1901, Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to ride a barrel down Niagara Falls. Her advice: “Don’t try it.”

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Five years after the abolition of slavery, a Methodist minister in the remote mountain town of Waynesville, North Carolina, carried out an act of reparation apparently unprecedented in U.S. history.

A Personal Act of Reparation | Kirk Savage

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.

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It is said that Alexander the Great once found Diogenes the Cynic examining a pile of human bones. “What are you looking for?” the ruler inquired. “I am searching for the bones of your father,” replied the philosopher, “but I cannot distinguish them from those of his slaves.”

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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” — Pablo Neruda, born on this day in 1904.

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Eponymous laws.

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“The best way to fill time is to waste it.” — Marguerite Duras, born on this day in 1914.

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Notes in manuscripts and colophons made by medieval scribes and copyists, including “oh, my hand” and “…sad!"

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"I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder."—Leonard Cohen, 1992

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“I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.” — Leonard Cohen, born on this day in 1934.

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“One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.” — George Eliot, born on this day in 1819.

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Born on this day in 1839: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

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"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind."—Albert Einstein, 1929

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A history of music notation.

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Well this definitely doesn’t sound familiar or anything.

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The origins of famous typefaces.

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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” — Pablo Neruda, born on this day in 1904.

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“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, born on this day in 1821.

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“Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.” — Thomas De Quincey, born on this day in 1785.

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“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.” — Groucho Marx, born on this day in 1890.

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Discovering the loaf-of-bread dildo.

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An essay by @davidgraeber and @davidwengrow in our new issue on Democracy, on democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas.

Hiding in Plain Sight | David Graeber and David Wengrow

Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas.

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“One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for 8 hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat 8 hours a day, nor drink for 8 hours a day, nor make love for 8 hours.” — William Faulkner, born on this day in 1897.

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Where writers got their best work done.

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"Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know." —Albert Camus http://t.co/5hbev9bSLV http://t.co/ni8IFICDT7

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“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.” —W.H. Auden, 1946

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The interconnected circles of writers, painters, and muses.

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The origins of famous typefaces.

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“Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.” — William James, born on this day in 1842.

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Alexis de Tocqueville nails it. #FirstAmendment

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“If we only stay long enough we become at home. We forget to some degree the superior loveliness of other places, and fall into a tolerant and sympathetic spirit which is its own reward and justification.”

Any Place Is Good Enough to Live a Life In | Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson finds enjoyment in the unpleasant.

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“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce, born on this day in 1882.

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Following human genes around the world:

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Born on this day in 1883: Franz Kafka.

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A timeline of bookmaking technology.

How Books Became Cheap | Lapham’s Quarterly

A timeline of bookmaking technology.

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The 74 best Devil’s Dictionary entries, as determined by @parisreview :

The Seventy-Four Best Entries in the Devil’s Dictionary

As a good neighbor and citizen, Anthony Madrid has made it easy to read just the highlights of The Devil's Dictionary.

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The precursors to the most powerful corporation in history.

Before the East India Company | William Dalrymple

The precursors to the most powerful corporation in history.

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“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.” — Italo Calvino, born on this day in 1923.

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In retrospect, the story of Cortés being mistaken for a god seems so obviously self-serving and even predictable that one has to wonder why it was believed for so long.

Inventing a God | Camilla Townsend

Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity?

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One evening in 1846, Walt Whitman discovered young men playing a curious new sport—baseball. http://t.co/kVsi5lGCDY http://t.co/tSpO7bAYk0

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair, born on this day in 1878.

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Born on this day in 1912: Alan Turing.

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NASA tries to solve the mystery of tampons in space.

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The final statements of historical figures.

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“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance,” Dorothy Thompson warned. “When our dictator turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys … and he will stand for everything traditionally American.”

The First Lady of American Journalism | Nancy F. Cott

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

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The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. —Plato, c. 348 BC http://t.co/OwWTN90w7m

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Emma Willard, an educator and textbook author in Troy, New York, devised this three-dimensional arrangement of chronology and important figures in history for students and educators.

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Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel, Journal of the Plague Year provides a first-person account of 1665 London during the Black Death. Although a novel, the book was meticulously researched, providing details of human experience that suggest a code of behavior for those struck by plague.

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“The first reaction to the plague’s appearance was, quite naturally, shock. Yet despite the general chaos, there was an attempt to use reason and observation to get a handle on the pandemic.”

Stay Home, All Ye Faithful

A letter from 640 proves that banning travel during an outbreak has been a long-standing practice.

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The reading list of philosopher John Stuart Mill, ages 3–7.

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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."—Jonathan Swift, 1706

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An intricate map of who’s insulted who.

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“Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.” — Susan Sontag, born on this day in 1933.

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“It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.” — Simone de Beauvoir, born on this day in 1908.

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Tracing the world’s four oldest fairy tales.

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“When Arendt returned to the United States she began teaching and lecturing on Marx in the middle of the McCarthy trials. The chilling intellectual atmosphere did not temper Arendt’s work.”