RIP Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, Bernard Maris, Georges Wolinski, Jean “Cabu” Cabut, Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac, Philippe Honoré, Elsa Cayat, Michel Renaud, Frederic Boisseau, Franck Brinsolaro, Moustapha Ourrad, and Ahmed Merabet.

“We begin where we are, where our hearts are. Let us take the time to bury the dead, to mourn, and to grieve. Let us mourn that we have created a world in which such violence seems to be everyday.”
-from Omid Safi, for Onbeing

“‘Tsundoku,’ the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language”
-from Open Culture

“Reading long, literary sentences sans links and distractions is actually a serious skill that you lose if you don’t use it. Before the Internet, the brain read in a linear fashion, taking advantage of sensory details to remember where key information was in the book by layout.”

-from Rachel Grate for Mic