Isaac Newton's personal copy of Opticks, believed to be lost, has been rediscovered in an American engineer's personal library and will be up for auction in February. Starting price: $375,000. [arstechnica.com]
If you want to read about how much of a shitshow Twitter has been since Elbon Moops and his Goons (you don't have to be smart or even competent to get riiiich) took over, here you go. [theverge.com]
Out today: John Hendrickson's Life On Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter. "Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition..." [bookshop.org]
Due to technology, culture, and social media, the pace of change of American Sign Language has increased. "Perhaps the most dramatic example: To accommodate the tight space of video screens, signs are shrinking." [nytimes.com]
K.C. Greene on the 10th anniversary of his comic that became the This Is Fine meme. "I am still a working cartoonist trying to make something bigger and better and people just like this thing you dashed off for a comic on a Wednesday." [tumblr.com]
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