Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 110 (October 2017)

Sacred Treasure

• Good stuff: 7 Differences between Judaea and Galilee – Jesus was Jesus of Nazareth… from Dick France.
• Chris Green offers a rather unexpected but powerful reason to appreciate really soppy Christian songs once in a while.
• Emma Scrivener is superb – 20 text messages for struggling friends
• Want to know if you’re a bigot? Just answer this easy to use one-question survey…

Topical Treasure

• This is powerful and trenchant – hard to disagree: Ross Douthat’s Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner
• The man who averted nuclear war has died: an extraordinary story. We can only hope that there are more like him around today…
• Matt Ridley makes an important point about free speech in the Times (behind £ unfortunately) – New Enemies Threaten the Enlightenment

Quirky Treasure

• Stunning – so-called ‘Spatial calligraphy’ with light in Japan.
• Even more stunning – a remarkable collection of images from August’s solar eclipse
• It’s quite long (30 minutes or so) but if you have an idle half hour, it’s fascinating – a voice coach analyses all kinds of different accents.
• An ingenious use for old shipping containers – a desert flower house in the Joshua Tree desert.
• I love this kind of whimsy – 50 outdoor mini-plays for passing trains
• How about this for your gravestone… Futility Closet explains.
• Smartify looks EXCELLENT – a shazam-type app for art!
• A designer has created some ingeniously useless things! Love them all
• This is fabulous – an onomaticist who compiled a list of great name of which these are some of the best.
• It lasts 10 minutes – but it is truly mesmerising – a time-lapse of 30 days at sea on a freighter

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