The Whippet
McKinley ValentineA newsletter for the terminally curious: Science, history, language, weirdness, with 0% contemporary politics, because oh my god sometimes you need a break.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 152 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 9 months ago |
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The Whippet #187: Hooves, stripes, paws and antler tips
Hello, good morning!
Important Saint update: this Sunday (August 17) is the feast day of St. Hyacinth, unofficial patron saint of weightlifters.
During the 1240 Siege of Kiev (by the Mongols), the priests are getting ready to flee. A prie...
The Whippet #172: Skeuomorphic Ghosts
Hello!
FYI The Whippet hasn't switched to three-weekly, that's not a Thing I'm deliberately doing, it's just a thing that happens sometimes.
So you know skeuomorphic design? A skeuomorph is a decorative/ornamental feature that replicates...
The Whippet #168: An indulgent loss of focus
Good morning, coming in with a gazpacho-cold take on the Discourse of three weeks ago:
That Brandon Sanderson profile in Wired.
(New readers: scroll to the newspaper icon if you don't care)
💡context if needed
Brandon Sanderson i...
The Whippet #167: Just trucking right along
Good morning!
A thing I continue to say even though I understand timezones!
Last issue I included an anecdote about a guy who got so overwhelmed by intense circumstances that he became incapable of solving the simple problem of "climb ove...
The Whippet #166: What part of rubeville are you from?
First I wanted to share this story I came across in a Reddit thread. It's about a man who survives a bushfire (unharmed), so warning there for grim reminders of bushfires, but I was also like, "oh this is exactly what it's like to get ADHD...
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McKinley is a writer and researcher for the TV show "Hard Quiz", which is exactly what it sounds like, and the newsletter "The Whippet", which isn't.
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