Hi there. Sorry about yesterday – we had some wild weather and not much power for posting purposes!

The Atlantic’s Timeline function shows you what’s happened in the world throughout your lifetime. It’s mostly serious stuff, but this cracked me up:

“This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.”

(Many a person has compared me to Ally Sheedy in the above photo.)

Also from the Atlantic: A Benedictine monk is helping to save Islamic manuscripts.

“Never read the comments” is well-known advice. But what if you had to prove you’d read an article before commenting on it? One news site in Norway is experimenting.