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The print that may have launched Benjamin Franklin’s career, lost for almost two centuries, has just gone on view at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Times’ Jennifer Schuessler reports.… Read more »

Last week, the world lost a titan of language reform—and, in the same stroke, one of its oldest political activists—when Zhou Youguang, who wrote his name 周有光, died in Beijing a day after… Read more »

It’s Friday! You’ve survived a long week on Planet Earth. No need to talk about the specifics — in fact, just for today, let’s not talk about the specifics. Let’s… Read more »