we're all mad here

nonsense.

Then I looked at the fine print. CCSU bases their study on factors like libraries, bookstores, periodicals, newspaper circulation, Internet resources, and education levels. But Amazon’s study? Is based on just “sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format.”

So, in case you didn’t catch that, Amazon thinks the cities that are most “well-read” are the cities that bought the most stuff from them.

nationalgeographicdaily: Walrus Skull, Bristol BayPhoto: Michael Melford A walrus skull sits alone in a field of wildflowers. Each spring thousands of walruses return to the Walrus Islands in northern Bristol Bay to feed, rest, and sometimes die.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Walrus Skull, Bristol Bay
Photo: Michael Melford

A walrus skull sits alone in a field of wildflowers. Each spring thousands of walruses return to the Walrus Islands in northern Bristol Bay to feed, rest, and sometimes die.

nationalgeographicdaily: Bushman, BotswanaPhoto: David Doubilet Sunlight and shadows highlight a river Bushman in a canoe in the Okavango River. When the river swells and floods, it creates an alluvial fan of more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers).

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Bushman, Botswana
Photo: David Doubilet

Sunlight and shadows highlight a river Bushman in a canoe in the Okavango River. When the river swells and floods, it creates an alluvial fan of more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers).

nationalgeographicdaily: Las Pozas, MexicoPhoto: Diane Cook and Len Jenshel When a freak freeze killed the orchid collection on his Mexican estate, English eccentric Edward James created Las Pozas, a garden with surreal follies like the concrete Bamboo Palace - durable and immune to the vagaries of weather.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Las Pozas, Mexico
Photo: Diane Cook and Len Jenshel

When a freak freeze killed the orchid collection on his Mexican estate, English eccentric Edward James created Las Pozas, a garden with surreal follies like the concrete Bamboo Palace - durable and immune to the vagaries of weather.

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”’Words don’t hurt you.’ Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.” - UnWholly (Neal Shusterman); submitted by foxes-of-harrow. Thank you!