Mozart’s Sister, Oligarchies, Who Invented Emojis, Endangered Knowledge and Dark Chocolate

Meet Shigetaka Kurita: The Man Who Created Emojis and Made Them a Global Language

It all started in 1998 with one man making the most of limitations.

The Language of Enslavement – Lingua Franca – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Bringing enslavement into the present and using active verbs and language to highlight the “historical process” of slavery.

Wikipedia’s Fate Shows How the Web Endangers Knowledge | WIRED

How social media and other mediums are refocusing our attention away from a text-based medium.

Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened.

Big Chocolate’s investment in health science was a marketing masterstroke.

What the Psychology of Human Memory Tells Us about How to Learn Better

How to study and retain information more effectively.

How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece

How is it that the wealthy always control government? Let’s take a look at Ancient Greece.

The lost genius of Mozart’s sister

In the Mozart family the first child prodigy wasn’t Wolfgang, it was his sister Maria Anna.