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Hello and welcome to Thursday. Here are some lovely and/or meaningful things for you from this week:
- A giant database of paper airplane designs. Filter by type ("Time Aloft," "Acrobatic," "Decorative"), ease-of-construction level, and "Yes Scissors" or "No Scissors."
- Animals sitting on capybaras.
- "What's the most mundane but thunderous epiphany you ever had? Something so ridiculously dull or elementary that still bowled you over when you figured it out?" (Many stovetops lift up??)
- A short profile of the artist Jenny Holzer, whose LED sculptures you've probably come across.
- Your Real Biological Clock is You're Going to Die.
- If you are of a certain generation, you probably remember Lauryn Hill's album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" as a seminal moment in musical history and the between-song interludes featuring a teacher asking his students their thoughts about love and life might be as memorable to you as the songs themselves. A reporter went back to those kids 20 years later to see if their opinions have changed.
- "People on the internet are saying I am the queen of Sweden, because in the legend of King Arthur, he was given a sword by a lady in a lake, and that meant he would become king. I am not a lady—I’m only eight—but it’s true I found a sword in the lake. I wouldn’t mind being queen for a day, but when I grow up I want to be a vet. Or an actor in Paris." Our new girl king tells her story.
- 100 websites that shaped the internet.
- How to vote. Vote.org for all your voting needs! Votes for Women for ways to help every day for the next 12 days!
- Not a poem, but a passage I loved from Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: "Hannah Arendt has a definition of freedom as being the freedom to imagine that which you cannot yet imagine. The freedom to imagine that as yet unimaginable work in front of others, moving them to still more action you can't imagine, that is the point of writing, to me. You may think it is humility to imagine your work doesn't matter. It isn't. Much the way you don't know what a writer will go on to write, you don't know what a reader, having read you, will do."
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Laura
P.S. Jobs: Brand Designer, Zendesk; Product Manager, Postlight; many jobs, Mailchimp; Email Marketing Manager, Dartmouth; Customer Success Engineer, Glitch; Assistant Director and Producers, Story Collider; Writer, Flip. Bye.
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