the voyage home: studying whale communication for its own sake and as a gateway to talk to alien life
new car smell: the odour that’s a premium for American customers does not enjoy universal appeal
the midnight parasites: a surreal 1972 animated short by Yลji Kuri set in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (previously)—an alternate source
notes on a place: visual artist Kimmo Metsaranta helps us appreciate architecture’s unnoticed corners and angles
casting out demons: US priests find themselves fielding more and more requests for exorcisms
๐: a Swedish word with a quite broad regional variation