Character amnesia in China
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Where does punctuation come from?!
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Robert Caro on the art of biography
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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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“Authentic” is dead. And so is “is dead.”
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Was early modern writing paper expensive?
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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There's a better English alphabet
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The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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Ten words for other people's children
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area.
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Inside a highly lucrative, ethically questionable essay-writing service
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Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
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The melancholy decline of the semicolon
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I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
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Why we turn off autocaps and only write in lowercase online
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Nonfiction writing advice
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Why writing philosophy is hard (and why every historical philosopher focuses on the wrong things)
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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Why is academic writing terrible?
13 votes -
Are journal articles getting too long?
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
9 votes -
Politics and the English language
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Language wars: The nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
10 votes -
Meet the guardian of grammar who wants to help you be a better writer
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Lets get rid of the apostrophe
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We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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Punctuation that failed to make its mark
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