Vox tells the story [https://www.vox.com/2015/8/25/9200801/wingdings-font-history]behind the famous Wingdings font: > Today it's easy to cut and paste images from the internet, but it used to be a lot harder. There were

Interesting article [https://www.nature.com/news/ancient-civilization-cracking-the-indus-script-1.18587] by Nature on the challenges of deciphering the script used by the Indus valley civilisation.

A good structure can increase your freedom. Just consider the following: * Poetry is written in a tight structure or rhyme scheme. E.g., The Iliad was written in dactylic hexameter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter]. * Poker is a deep and interesting game,

The photographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo has found ways to get incredible photographs of the deep sky. It's hard to believe that these weren't shot from a space telescope but from Earth: "Colors of Creation" by Rogelio Bernal Andreo

This [https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates] is an incredible story demonstrating the power of Microsoft Excel: Scientists have renamed several genes so Excel doesn't auto-format them into dates. Quote: > From

Ghost kitchens are a recent trend in the food industry – restaurants that only do delivery, that are sometimes located in industrial facilities. Two good articles on ghost kitchens, from the Superfood newsletter: * What's Next For Restaurants [https://superfood.substack.com/p/whats-

Interesting piece of digital art from a team of designers called Universal Everything [https://universaleverything.com/projects/transfiguration-2020].

TIL Google have their own [https://artsandculture.google.com/explore]online museum, Google Arts & Culture. Here's [https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/leonardo-da-vinci/m04lg6?categoryId=artist] their collection of Leonardo's works.

While reading The Odyssey, you sometimes feel like there is a deep wisdom in it. Two examples: * The sirens * The sirens draw everyone who listens to their music towards them, and doom the listeners to death as their ships are dashed on the rocks.

Following yesterday's post [https://apoorvupreti.com/gilgamesh-performed/]on the performance of The Epic of Gilgamesh, I've been listening to some millennia-old music recently. Specifically I've been listening to Hurrian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs]

Another [https://medium.com/@voshart/photoreal-roman-emperor-project-236be7f06c8f] attempt to create life-like portraits of Roman emperors using machine learning.

Why [https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the-job/]simple, cheap tools are the best place to start.

This is a good two part series on the origins of Indian conglomerate Reliance and its extremely successful telecom division, Jio: Part I [https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins/], Part II [https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio]. I wasn'

Incredible [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A]photos of Mars in 4K from NASA's rovers.