Friday, January 17, 2025

Welcome back to Wolmania. Let's kick things off with something timely:

Item 1: a link

Charles and Emma Darwin had ten kids over the years. And the Darwin Manuscripts Project, an effort to scan and publish Charles Darwin's work, captured a bunch of those kids’ cute little drawings on the back of Charles's working papers. Back in 2015, McKenna Stayner of The New Yorker wrote about it and posted some of the good ones:

Amusingly, the children felt free scribbling on some historic stuff, like the manuscript of “On the Origin of Species”, but at the end of the day it’s not like we needed it.

The Darwin Manuscripts Project also posted a collection of all the Darwin Children Stuff in their collection, if you’d like to learn more.

Item 2: a list

Named American Time Zones, Ranked

1. Pacific
2. Hawaii-Aleutian
3. Mountain
4. Atlantic
5. Alaska
6. Eastern
7. American Samoa
8. Central
9. Chamorro

Item 3: a media recommendation

Item 4: word of the week

Phatic

Are we just going to exchange phatic platitudes or are we going to get deep? I want to get to know the real you!

Nice try but no, I'm still not telling you my PIN.

Item 5: a photograph

See ya!

Thanks for reading. See you next week.