Ever since I started at Slate I have been fascinated by our commenting community, which seems to hate just about everything I’ve ever published on the site. For the 30th anniversary of the magazine, I decided to ask them why. (Quick thread.)

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Right-hand window of Caspar David Friedrich's studio in 1805. Site of dreams, and boats. Friedrich was born OTD 1774.

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Cave at evening, (aka Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno) by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1774. Today has been his day.

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I’ve been seeing a lot more focus on reading in k-12 since alarms started going off about literacy rates, and I think something we need to focus on as a culture is producing more reading-forward spaces: abbeys with dark secrets hidden below ground, cemeteries with a single tome on a platform, old sp

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Ok I can share—today MSLIS student Nadja Robot donated a teletype machine to @skeuomorphpress.org’s Undead Media Lab But this is not just any teletype—it’s the one Michael S. Hart used to digitize the Declaration of Independence & Alice in Wonderland—the 1st texts in what became Project Gutenberg

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