I like reading things online, but I don’t always know where to look to find interesting articles. So, I figured we could exchange interesting links to articles.
Here are a few to start:
Interesting article in Slate about English language:
**Word Count **
Are there really 988,968 words in the English language?
Another Slate article about elitism in Lacrosse. Good laugh, and very insightful:
Lacrosse Players
The elitism of preppies, the boorishness of jocks.
So what else should I be reading?
I find articles from the Earth Policy Reader to be interesting:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/index.htm
They discuss the state of the world’s environment and how it affects the economy.
Dr. Robert White
A Sunday Telegraph Magazine article on the pioneer of modern head transplant research, and standby Vatican neurosurgeon.
Bail-out!
Planned but unbuilt orbital escape systems. 'Nothing like skydiving from LEO.
Landkeuzer P.1000 “Ratte”
Most of a chapter (minus the fictionalized account of it’s first deployment) from the upcoming book My Tank is Fight!, an compendium of insane Nazi weapons that were never built.
Arts and Letters Daily has links to a wide variety of interesting articles, reviews, and essays. It is updated six days a week - every weekday, and once on weekends. It’s excellent.