http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/so-youre-not-a-physicist.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-18/your-paper-brain-and-your-kindle-brain-arent-same-thing

this one posted by mitpress:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59071/little-known-punctuation-marks-national-punctuation-day

words are things that travelled through these things:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/telefontornet-stockholm/

http://online.wsj.com/articles/ichiro-suzuki-uncensored-en-espanol-1409356461

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/whats-in-a-word-a-chinese-dictionary-updates/?mabReward=RI%3A16&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-artful-accidents-of-google-books

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/fashion/texting-anxiety-caused-by-little-bubbles.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&abt=0002&abg=1&_r=1

http://www.timschwartz.org/modern-methods-of-book-composition/