Making its way onto my bookshelf and into my brain this week, Kenneth Lacovara’s Why Dinosaurs Matter, expanded from his 2016 TED talk. Every page is littered with paleontological anecdotes (paleontodotes?) and mind-blowing facts, a long-overdue correction to the wildly incorrect dinosaur books of my childhood. Did you know that T-Rex and Stegosaurus were separated by more time than separates you and T-Rex.? Or that penguins are dinosaurs? Even the little fluffy ones. Penguins are dinosaurs.
Meanwhile:
Gym Class Magazine is back
kickstarting 1923, a new zine showcasing the avalanche of work that has entered the public domain this year
Lydian is everywhere
a map of fake places in Britain
entries are open for this year’s Academy of British Cover Design awards
an rather handy medieval fantasy city generator, ideal for your day-to-day medieval fantasy city generation needs
you’ve got another think coming, not another thing coming
Nicholas Rougeux's digital recreation of the 1847 Byrne edition of The Elements of Euclid
Oliver Jeffers’ space explorer Tattly set
a wonderful short film about the last chess shop in NYC