The BBC published an interesting article on Jèrriais, Jersey's native language. The language was used as to pass secret codes and information while the island was occupied by the Nazis, and has since been going through a revival and standardisation.
BBC Future published a piece highlighting different systems around the world that are stuck using old tech and operating systems. Apparently the automatic train control system of San Francisco's Muni Metro boot up every morning from DOS using a floppy disk.
True Size is a mapping website that allows you to specify and country and move an overlay of it across the globe, to demonstrate how the Mercator projection does not represent the true size of many countries.
The Journal of Art In Society published an interesting piece about how Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ spent 60 years as a misidentified piece with the Jesuits, after an adventure with connections to 1916 revolutionary Tom Clarke and famous artist Harry Clarke!
