Happy Monday, everyone. 

A year ago, we went on a cross-country trip (and boy, are we glad we did it last year instead of putting it off). We stayed in a hotel in Iowa that had a room devoted to Dvořák and I didn’t know the whole story behind it, but evidently he came to Iowa and found a spiritual home of sorts there. 

Can we escape from information overload? One artist tried to live in complete darkness for a month. He went slightly mad during the experiment (and his eyes changed color temporarily!!), but it sounds fascinating. 

Autocar has a fun slideshow of never-sold Volkswagen models. 

XKCD is always great, but I particularly love this one. Once again, could anyone have imagined this world a year ago?