Perhaps you noticed the waxing crescent in the evening sky and thought, “Less than two orbits to go!” And perhaps you have given some thought to the eyewear you will favor for observing the annular solar eclipse on the afternoon of Sunday, May 20.
“Monuments used to be about making a singular statement for people to interpret. They could be simple, or even abstract. Now they’re about hitting people over the head with the obvious while ticking off boxes for different interest groups. It’s a mentality that leaves you with 56 columns around the WWII memorial rather than 50 (lest ye forget Guam!)” (link)
Tremendously cool opening sentence:
“When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: a dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and still sharp.”
(From the Washington Post article, “Radical theory of first Americans places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 years ago,” which I was guided to by Marginal Revolution. By the way, what has happened to paragraphs in newspaper writing? That opening sentence is also the opening paragraph. The first ten paragraphs are composed of twelve sentences total.)