The Age of Enlightenment was also… the age of wigs? Luigi Amara considers the dearth of unified theories of the hair piece. https://lithub.com/how-come-we-dont-have-a-philosophy-of-wigs/

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Oregon zoo's strangely beautiful X-rays of animals taken during annual check-ups. Come for the Ball python and flamingo, stay for the dwarf mongoose and fat-tailed gecko. https://laughingsquid.com/oregon-zoo-x-ray-images-of-animals/

For the first time, researchers have created a comprehensive map of these bees' distribution across the globe. https://www.inverse.com/science/new-map-of-bees

Merriam-Webster posed a Thanksgiving word quiz. https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/thanksgiving-quiz

Chimera Painter: AI tool turns doodles into CGI monsters https://storage.googleapis.com/chimera-painter/index.html

If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it by now.

The History of CTRL ALT DELETE.
"Bradley chose the keys by location—with the del key across the keyboard from the other two, it seemed unlikely that all three would be accidentally pressed at the same time. Bradley never intended to make the shortcut available to customers, nor did he expect it to enter the pop lexicon. It was meant for him and his fellow coders, for whom every second counted."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51674/history-ctrl-alt-delete

"$10,000 and a mountain bike" – How Arkansas is luring people to move to the state. You'll be living like a Little Rock star. https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/northwest-arkansas-relocation-initiative

A look at representation and inclusivity in crossword puzzles. https://pudding.cool/2020/11/crossword/

Cooking Thanksgiving just-for-you? This might help. https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/how-to-cook-thanksgiving-for-one-article

Oxford Dictionaries couldn’t sum up 2020 in a single word. It had to expand its word of the year to a list including “Covid-19”, “Black Lives Matter”, and “essential workers.”

I was positive it was going to be "doomscrolling."

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55016543

A look at the growing world of virtual HQs on services like Branch, Gather, and Huddle, which are using spatial tech to create a metaverse dedicated to work
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/18/virtual-hqs-race-to-win-over-a-remote-work-fatigued-market/

The strange history of the turkey
Few things seem more American than a roasted fowl. The truth is more complicated. https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/11/18/the-thanksgiving-turkey-is-a-beast-of-no-nation

Plant Parenthood allows plant owners to share their plants or ask for help from a global community of plant parents. https://plantparenthood.cc/

53 whiskey cocktail recipes. Because 2020. https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/whiskey-cocktails-drink-recipes-gallery

Pandemic Thanksgiving Menu 2020
(just us two, a pre-columbian meal)

Venison chops
Griddled maple squash, from The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen
Cranberry-orange-ginger chutney
Pecan pie

You know that NYC pizza rat? Here's his story. https://hyperallergic.com/602315/new-yorks-own-pizza-rat-on-making-performance-art-accessible/