‘Dictionary of the Illegible explores the limits of language—its beginnings and its ends—from humanity’s earliest marks to the dissolution of modern alphabets before our eyes. Mapping more than 400 examples of illegibility drawn from Indigenous cultures to imagined future civilizations, the book spans contemporary art, science fiction, politics, architecture, and technology. Dictionary of the Illegible proposes illegibility as a strategy for navigating a world increasingly governed by visibility, efficiency, and total surveillance….’ (via Source Type)

‘Figuring out which bite you have can help determine what kind of itching or pain you might expect and whether you need to worry about an insect-borne disease.

“Everyone reacts a bit differently to bug bites, so it’s not always possible to know the culprit just from looking at the bite,” Allison Gardner, a medical entomologist and associate professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine, tells Outside. That said, there are clues in how bites feel, as well as where and how they crop up, that point to one bug versus another.…’ (Erica Sloan via Outside)