Your brain is literally two minds! Research from Stanford shows that the human brain is two separate organs. 🤯

This is interesting but I primarily included it because it’s referenced in John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’; a weird documentary that is about so much more than concrete (but also about concrete). You should watch it; it’s in theaters now.

415 million years ago, a scorpion over three feet long stalked ancient Britain. No thank you.

Rushville, Nebraska, the locale for much of HBO’s Lanterns, is real! Matt Webb Mitovich interviewed locals there to get their thoughts on how the show depicts their town & also gets the scoop on why the show is actually set there.

Looking for more ‘Lanterns’ content? For Reactor, I interviewed composer Stephanie Economou about scoring the show.

Looking for more composer content?! I also interviewed the Newton Brothers about scoring X-Men ‘97.

What better way to learn about death than in a flip book? That’s how it was done in the United States in the early 19th century. The book also turned Adam into Eve into a mermaid for reasons I can’t fully explain.

I do a bunch of book reviews for Reactor. This fantasy novel is the best I’ve read in a while.

An 1894 magazine was returned to the Concord Public Library in New Hampshire. The guy would have turned it in decades earlier, but was worried about the fine.

I couldn’t find any pneumatic tube content this month 😢 This post is a great substitute though: Julia Barton does a deep dive into dirigibles and how radio made one related disaster famous and may have averted another.