blink
n.— «It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link, à la Kottke remainders…. We’ll be using “blink” posts here at Copyfight to share links to articles, resources, and websites of interest that do not necessarily require paragraphs of context or analysis.» —“What’s a Blink?” by Donna Wentworth Corante Dec. 3, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Asthenosphere, a geologist’s term for the molten layer beneath the earth’s crust, sparks a journey that stretches all the way from ancient Greece to the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Plus: What the heck is a dogberg? It’s when...