Some more accuratel than others, it has to be said. But it’s still impressive that someone writing in 1900 predicted mobile phones and cameras able to instantly transmit their photos across the world.

Brilliance. Among other things, Mark Twain wrote that the “rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction”

require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

and

require that the author shall say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.

Another side to the cartoonist Ronald Searle, best known for his illustrations for the Molesworth and St Trinian’s books.

Quite fascinating—expecially the ones where the avatar is like an altered version of the original person, rather than entirely different.

Sheer brilliance from The Onion.

How bees in a hive interact somewhat similarly to neurons in a brain, enabling decisions to be taken.

I didn’t know there was a name for this. It’s the theoretical maximim number of people for whom it’s possible to know “who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person”. Though I don’t see how it can be a specific number, since it will surely vary from person to person.

Sixteenth-century solution to the problem of a deskful of open books. Some of these were actually made, in various forms.

Should be compulsory reading for everyone who’s ever tried to bully someone out of depression—or tried to bully themself out of depression. Very, very accurate and very, very humorous description of what it’s actually like.