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<p>Elvish, Klingon and Pig Latin: what can invented languages teach us about the human brain?</p><p>From pidgins to Tolkien and Esperanto, humans have created entirely new languages for many different reasons.</p><p>By Inka Romero-Ortells Labrada, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Manuel Perea</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/elvish-klingon-and-pig-latin-what-can-invented-languages-teach-us-about-the-human-brain-288629?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804&utm_content=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804+CID_690e6318290719ebb3e527d755d7e7bc&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Elvish%20Klingon%20and%20Pig%20Latin%20what%20can%20invented%20languages%20teach%20us%20about%20the%20human%20brain" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/elvish-klingon-and-pig-latin-what-can-invented-languages-teach-us-about-the-human-brain-288629?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804&utm_content=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804+CID_690e6318290719ebb3e527d755d7e7bc&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Elvish%20Klingon%20and%20Pig%20Latin%20what%20can%20invented%20languages%20teach%20us%20about%20the%20human%20brain"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/elvish-kli</span><span class="invisible">ngon-and-pig-latin-what-can-invented-languages-teach-us-about-the-human-brain-288629?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804&utm_content=How%20polarised%20is%20European%20politics%20%20Finance%20jobs%20widening%20inequalities%20-%203906139804+CID_690e6318290719ebb3e527d755d7e7bc&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=Elvish%20Klingon%20and%20Pig%20Latin%20what%20can%20invented%20languages%20teach%20us%20about%20the%20human%20brain</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/neuroscience/" rel="tag">#neuroscience</a></p>

The first stanza of Tolkien's Quenya poem "Namárië", written in his Tengwar script.

This shows the first stanza of "Namárië" written in Tengwar, the elvish script created by J.R.R. Tolkien for his Middle-earth languages .

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<p>While horror isn’t typically my genre of choice, this new to me series by an author that I loved in middle school and high school infuse some really great social justice messages into this young adult novel about zombies and working together as a community <a href="https://share.libbyapp.com/title/1027016" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="share.libbyapp.com/title/1027016"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">share.libbyapp.com/title/10270</span><span class="invisible">16</span></a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a></p>

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<p>A Review of Outopos: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-outopos/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-outopos/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-ou</span><span class="invisible">topos/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/fivestars/" rel="tag">#FiveStars</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

ook cover for Outopos by Rudolph Kohn. Image on cover is a drawing of a closeup of the brain of a computer. Various chips in it are glowing in the darkness.

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<p>Half off at <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a> : <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1667520" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1667520"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1667520</span></a></p><p>The Hunter seeks peace and quiet to mourn the loss of her best friend in a world that seems bound and determined to make that task impossible. Enemies attack when she’d rather be alone, allies can’t take a hint and the arch-demon Wrath seeks the Hunter’s hand in marriage, even though she’d sooner kill him.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of She Seeks Peace, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a snow-capped, craggy mountain with green, grassy hills at its base, which feature yellow and blue flowers.

The foreground is dominated by the round symbol for peace, in gold. Along the bottom of it are two olive branches. At the top is a dove in flight. Arranged on the lower three spokes of it are three figures based on the AIGA symbol for a woman. The figure on the right is blue. The one in the middle is a very dark gray, bordering on black, which includes a top hat. The figure on the left is red and has horns, like a demon.

(Right) The background is a view from the interior of a gun's barrel, with the rifling very apparent and the following quote over the top:

Reggie looked down the barrel of one of his own pistols, which the girl held in both hands, because the M1911 was a little large for someone so small.

There was a long, silent moment as the girl giggled and met his gaze. The murderous look was gone, replaced by something more playful, like a cat toying with a mouse.

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/SheSeeksPeace

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/SkyChildren" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/SkyChildren</a></p><p>With a strange virus giving colonists magic powers, they call for government aid, but much to their surprise, warships packed to the gills with nuclear ordnance arrive! They run for the hills, not knowing why, totally terrified for their lives as their city is struck down as if by the wrath of an angry God!</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of Sky Children, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a nuclear explosion and its mushroom cloud, in some distant hills. There's a dirt road along some rocky hills leading away from it.

The foreground is dominated by the dark silhouettes of another hill, some tall grass and a family of five holding hands, going left to right: girl, mother, girl, boy and father. The mother and father look down at the children, while they look up at their mother. The tallest of the children appears to be a boy in shorts, while the other two are girls of the same height, indicating they may be twins. The girls have pony tails and wear dresses. The mother wears a skirt and the father wears pants. The family holds hands.

The silhouettes are highlighted by the orange light of the explosion.

(Right) An explosion is fiery and bright. Someone hold up their left hand to block the light, but the light is so intense, their flesh only tinges the light a pinkish-red shade and their bones are visible, outlined with dark red lines. The following text is laid over that:

He shielded his eyes with his hands, but even with his eyes closed, he could see the shadows of his finger bones, as highlighted by the monstrous, nuclear light!

Temporarily blinded, tears fell from his eyes.

*What more could I have done? Could we have saved more people somehow? How could I have known the consequences of setting up the navigation beacon? Why is this happening?*

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/SkyChildren

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<p>📚 Ed by: qntm</p><p>Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engineering. When the aliens attack and you need a giant robot to fight them, he's your guy. When a galaxy goes missing, he's the one who misplaced it.</p><p>But there's something wrong in the dark layers of Ed's universe - and the problem might just be E...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/Ed" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/Ed</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>

Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engineering. When the aliens attack and you need a giant robot to fight them, he's your guy. When a galaxy goes missing, he's the one who misplaced it.

But there's something wrong in the dark layers of Ed's universe - and the problem might just be Ed himself...

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<p>In 19th-century Dublin, a disillusioned doctor and a fallen woman cross paths, sparking a forbidden love that defies society's judgments.</p><p>Amazon - <a href="https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/ascarletwoman</a><br>Other Retailers - <a href="https://lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-scarlet-woman"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lornapeel.com/fitzgeralds/a-sc</span><span class="invisible">arlet-woman</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/booksbylornapeel/" rel="tag">#BooksByLornaPeel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> <a href="/tags/historicalromance/" rel="tag">#HistoricalRomance</a> <a href="/tags/bookseries/" rel="tag">#BookSeries</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#HistoricalFiction</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#KindleUnlimited</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

Promotional image for the Irish historical fiction novel A Scarlet Woman by Lorna Peel, book one in The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series, an Irish family Saga. The image features an e-reader displaying the book cover, which shows a young woman in a pale blue dress looking downward against a faded Dublin cityscape background. Large text at the top reads, “Begin The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series with A Scarlet Woman.” On the right, text describes the story as an escape to 19th-century Ireland, featuring scandal, sacrifice, and a love that changes everything. At the bottom, the available formats are listed: Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Paperback.

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<p>Another great interview w/ author/illustrator <a href="/tags/mollycrabapple/" rel="tag">#MollyCrabapple</a> on <a href="/tags/americanprestige/" rel="tag">#AmericanPrestige</a> pod about her new book <a href="/tags/herewhereweliveisourcountry/" rel="tag">#HereWhereWeLiveIsOurCountry</a>: The Story of the <a href="/tags/jewishbund/" rel="tag">#JewishBund</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjrgZ9BBRE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjrgZ9BBRE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYjrgZ</span><span class="invisible">9BBRE</span></a><br><a href="/tags/bund/" rel="tag">#Bund</a> <a href="/tags/bundism/" rel="tag">#bundism</a> <a href="/tags/jewishlabourbund/" rel="tag">#JewishLabourBund</a> <a href="/tags/jewishhistory/" rel="tag">#JewishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/jewishleft/" rel="tag">#JewishLeft</a> <a href="/tags/antizionism/" rel="tag">#antizionism</a> <a href="/tags/antifascism/" rel="tag">#antifascism</a> <a href="/tags/holocaust/" rel="tag">#Holocaust</a> <a href="/tags/poland/" rel="tag">#Poland</a> <a href="/tags/easterneurope/" rel="tag">#EasternEurope</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/palestinequestion/" rel="tag">#PalestineQuestion</a> <a href="/tags/memoirs/" rel="tag">#memoirs</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>Ebook and paperback (New Release): <a href="https://books2read.com/SheConsumesPoison" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/SheConsumesPoison"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/SheConsumesPois</span><span class="invisible">on</span></a></p><p>Shime Yasu, a New York homicide cop, once impressed a group of monster hunters, known as the Ashen Blades, and one of them gave her their card, for the day she might be ready to see the real truth of the world. Unable to sleep and tired of being blind to the real world, Yasu calls the number and she’s brought in for training.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The cover of Scarlet Eye: She Consumes Poison, by Owen Tyme.

The perspective if from the darkness within a mouth with long fangs, the teeth appearing as a dark silhouette along the top and bottom. The background is a scene centering on a factory polluting the environment, putting out smoke and dumping chemicals into water. The water includes fish skeletons, to demonstrate how deadly the chemicals are. There are also some dead trees in frame, further hinting at the deadliness.

The foreground is a rather good looking and shiny red apple, which has the black silhouette of a spider on it, an indication of its hidden, toxic nature.

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<p>📚 Elsewhere by: Gabrielle Zevin</p><p>Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick, and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning...</p><p>Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place so like E...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/elsewhere" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/elsewhere</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/socialtopics/" rel="tag">#socialtopics</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#family</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick, and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning...

Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?

Full of the most ingenious detail and woven around the most touching and charming relationships, this is a novel of hope, of redemption and rebirth. It is a novel that tells of sadness with heartbreaking honesty, and of love and happiness with uplifting brilliance.

From the acclaimed author of Sunday Times bestseller Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. A novel of hope, love and redemption in Liz's life after life.
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME
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“Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and

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James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird” by Nadja Spiegelman Page · reddthat.com <p>James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird” by Nadja Spiegelman</p><p><a href="https://reddthat.com/post/71452048" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>reddthat.com/post/71452048</a></p>

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<p>DNA and Archeological Research Reveal the Overlooked History of Japan’s Women Warriors</p><p>By Sage Helene</p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/japan-women-samurai-archaeology/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_term=07292026&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/japan-women-samurai-archaeology/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_term=07292026&utm_medium=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/japan-women-sa</span><span class="invisible">murai-archaeology/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_term=07292026&utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p>Books about Japanese fiction at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/36794" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/36794"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/36794</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

"Hangakujo". The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen by Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). From the series "Yoshitoshi mushaburui: A series of warriors by Yoshitoshi." Published in "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e," essays by Sandy Kita, New York, 2001, no. 72, p. 135. Exhibited at "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances," organized by the Library of Congress, 2001.

A woodblock print depicting an onna-musha (female samurai warrior) mounted on a rearing white horse. She wears red and black lacquered armor with a quiver of arrows on her back, and holds a bow.

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<p>Book Review: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett<br>Meat is murder says <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@DrEddieClark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrEddieClark</span></a></span> in his review at the NOAF blog:<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/book-review-trade-of-blood-by-robert.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/book-review-trade-of-blood-by-robert.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-trade-of-blood-by-robert.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>How Shakespeare and his contemporaries used music to rouse emotions</p><p>by Shirley Bell</p><p>Shakespeare used music in a multitude of ways to delight, amuse, relax, confuse and frighten his audiences.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries-used-music-to-rouse-emotions-287118?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2030%202026%20-%203892139637&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2030%202026%20-%203892139637+CID_1d72a754d221aafee869a5348be8a6e0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=How%20Shakespeare%20and%20his%20contemporaries%20used%20music%20to%20rouse%20emotions" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/how-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries-used-music-to-rouse-emotions-287118?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2030%202026%20-%203892139637&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2030%202026%20-%203892139637+CID_1d72a754d221aafee869a5348be8a6e0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=How%20Shakespeare%20and%20his%20contemporaries%20used%20music%20to%20rouse%20emotions"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-shakes</span><span class="invisible">peare-and-his-contemporaries-used-music-to-rouse-emotions-287118?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2030%202026%20-%203892139637&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2030%202026%20-%203892139637+CID_1d72a754d221aafee869a5348be8a6e0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=How%20Shakespeare%20and%20his%20contemporaries%20used%20music%20to%20rouse%20emotions</span></a></p><p>Books by Shakespeare at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/65</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

The Chandos portrait, likely depicting Shakespeare, c. 1611

It shows Shakespeare with a receding hairline, dark curly hair, a gold hoop earring, mustache and small beard, wearing a black doublet with a white collar against a dark background.

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<p>Deepest dive yet w/ author/illustrator <a href="/tags/mollycrabapple/" rel="tag">#MollyCrabapple</a> about her book <a href="/tags/herewhereweliveisourcountry/" rel="tag">#HereWhereWeLiveIsOurCountry</a>: The Story of the <a href="/tags/jewishbund/" rel="tag">#JewishBund</a>. A sprawling 2-part interview on Daniel Denvir's excellent <a href="/tags/thedigradio/" rel="tag">#TheDigRadio</a> </p><p><a href="https://thedigradio.com/podcast/making-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thedigradio.com/podcast/making-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedigradio.com/podcast/making</span><span class="invisible">-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/</span></a><br><a href="https://thedigradio.com/podcast/destruction-of-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thedigradio.com/podcast/destruction-of-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedigradio.com/podcast/destru</span><span class="invisible">ction-of-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/</span></a></p><p>catch her live in Brooklyn on Oct 11 (in person/virtual) <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/live" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>jewishcurrents.org/live</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bund/" rel="tag">#Bund</a> <a href="/tags/bundism/" rel="tag">#bundism</a> <a href="/tags/jewishlabourbund/" rel="tag">#JewishLabourBund</a> <a href="/tags/jewishhistory/" rel="tag">#JewishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/jewishleft/" rel="tag">#JewishLeft</a> <a href="/tags/antizionism/" rel="tag">#antizionism</a> <a href="/tags/antifascism/" rel="tag">#antifascism</a> <a href="/tags/holocaust/" rel="tag">#Holocaust</a> <a href="/tags/poland/" rel="tag">#Poland</a> <a href="/tags/warsawghettouprising/" rel="tag">#WarsawGhettoUprising</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/memoirs/" rel="tag">#memoirs</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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<p>"I really enjoyed reading this, so utopian and dystopian at the same time"</p><p>Here is a selection of what readers are saying about The Blossoming of the Big Tree. We will keep adding more to this page as they come along, and we hope it can convince you to read this story, about an old woman who has to coordinate the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades, though she is the reclusive type of person.</p><p><a href="https://www.ododopress.com/blog/praise-for-the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ododopress.com/blog/praise-for-the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ododopress.com/blog/praise</span><span class="invisible">-for-the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#solarpunk</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#sciFi</a></p>

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<p>What are you reading currently? <a href="/tags/iamreading/" rel="tag">#IAmReading</a></p><p>Nearing the end of Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg.<br>2/3 advice on writing. <br>1/3 advice on life.<br>Brilliantly, at the same time.</p><p>Just started Death With Interruptions by José Saramago. </p><p>And what do you have on hold? </p><p>Several books by Adrian Tchaikovsky.<br>Because I’d like to write like him when I grow up.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

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Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/company-offering-printed-books-to… Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a “test of market interest.” Page · lemmy.dbzer0.com <p>cross-posted from: <a href="https://piefed.social/c/technology@lemmy.world/p/2250460/company-offering-printed-books-to-train-ai-stops-after-404-media-coverage" rel="nofollow">piefed.social/…/company-offering-printed-books-to…</a></p><p><p>Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a “test of market interest.”</p></p><p>Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73205049" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73205049</a></p>

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<p>Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine is a Hindu mandala</p><p>The 19th-century novelist Honoré de Balzac was Catholic, French to the core and obsessed with the material details of French society. Yet there is something profoundly Hindu in the way he sought to understand the world.</p><p>by Harsh Trivedi (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/honore-de-balzacs-la-comedie-humaine-is-a-hindu-mandala-262151" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/honore-de-balzacs-la-comedie-humaine-is-a-hindu-mandala-262151"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/honore-de-</span><span class="invisible">balzacs-la-comedie-humaine-is-a-hindu-mandala-262151</span></a></p><p>Books by Balzac at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/251" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/251"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/251</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Title page of Honoré de Balzac's Cousin Bette (1846).

It is showing a woman in dark mourning-style dress sitting on a stool beside a bed, watching over a figure lying beneath the covers in a sparse attic room with exposed wooden beams and a small skylight.

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<p>As a big fan of both Trek and Discworld, I support the flawless logic of this crossover 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/u/fantasy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fantasy</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/geekmemes/" rel="tag">#GeekMemes</a> <a href="/tags/geek/" rel="tag">#Geek</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <br><a href="/tags/discworld/" rel="tag">#Discworld</a> <a href="/tags/startrek/" rel="tag">#StarTrek</a> <a href="/tags/spock/" rel="tag">#Spock</a> <a href="/tags/greatatuin/" rel="tag">#GreatAtuin</a><br><a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</a><br><a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#TV</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

A meme from the bridge of Star Trek the original series, with Great A'Tuin showing on the viewscreen

Caption: "GET SPOCK UP HERE! I can't wait to see his face!"

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<p>Johannes Gutenberg & the Invention of the Printing Press</p><p>Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in the 15th century was one of the most important technological developments of the early modern period.</p><p>by Anisia Iacob (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/johannes-gutenberg-printing-press/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/johannes-gutenberg-printing-press/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/johannes-</span><span class="invisible">gutenberg-printing-press/</span></a></p><p>Check out this fascinating report on the Gutenberg Museum, written by Eric Hellman. (<span class="h-card"><a href="https://tilde.zone/@gluejar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gluejar</span></a></span> )<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/printingdevices/" rel="tag">#printingdevices</a></p>

New Inventions of Modern Times ,Nova Reperta, The Invention of Book Printing, plate 4, print, Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (MET, 34.30(5)).

It depicts a busy 16th-century printing workshop showing various stages of the printing process.

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<p>What happens when the grammar police inevitably gets corrupted? 🤔 Is that where slang comes from? 😁 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@writingbooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingbooks</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/linguisticmemes/" rel="tag">#LinguisticMemes</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#Linguistics</a> <br><a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#Language</a> <a href="/tags/words/" rel="tag">#Words</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a></p>

Photo of two women dressed up as cops with the line, 'Grammar Police: To Serve and Correct.'

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<p>“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”<br>Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage</p><p>By Arnoud S. Q. Visser via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span> </p><p>Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. </p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/parodies-of-pedantry/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/parodies-of-pedantry/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/p</span><span class="invisible">arodies-of-pedantry/</span></a></p><p>Il pedante by Francesco Belo is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34640" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34640</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/pedantry/" rel="tag">#pedantry</a></p>

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<p>1,300+ Hand-Colored Wildlife Illustrations Now Available in The Naturalist’s Library Digital Archive</p><p>By Linnea Pejcha</p><p>Created by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833 and 1843, The Naturalist’s Library consists of over 40 volumes of information about local as well as foreign animals, ranging from hummingbirds to monkeys to quadrupeds.</p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/naturalists-library-digital-restoration/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/naturalists-library-digital-restoration/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/naturalists-li</span><span class="invisible">brary-digital-restoration/</span></a></p><p>The Naturalist's Library:<br><a href="https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.c82.net/naturalists-library/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.c82.net/naturalists-librar</span><span class="invisible">y/</span></a></p><p>Books about Zoology at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/6447" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/6447"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/6447</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#wildlife</a></p>

TROPICAL AMERICAN HUMMING-BIRDS

The Animal World, A Book of Natural History

Author: Theodore Wood

Editor: Ernest Ingersoll

An illustration plate showing eight different species of hummingbirds, each perched on small branches with leaves, displaying a variety of plumage colors and patterns.

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<p>Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge</p><p>By Anne Lawrence-Mathers via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KYSMXQDEWR6A2BN787RJS7QG&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KYSMXQDEWR6A2BN787RJS7QG&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/a</span><span class="invisible">rs-notoria/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KYSMXQDEWR6A2BN787RJS7QG&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_Manuscripts</a></p>

Two figures related to the art of astronomy from a manuscript of the Ars notoria (NLI Ms. Yah. Var. 34), ca. 1550–1600. Each contains subordinate figures to be contemplated — while reciting accompanying prayers (orations) — in a prescribed sequence over time and with respect to the cardinal directions.

Credits מאוסף הספרייה הלאומית

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