1. Heidi is a book about the miraculous transformative power of dairy, and that's important in these dark times.

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  2. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  3. Historian Mo Moulton on the brewing conflict over the local hospital in the final season of Downton Abbey.

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  4. A comprehensive map of all the prominent Wessex locations featured in the works of Thomas Hardy.

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  5. Everyone stop saying “supertaster.”

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  6. Aunt Acid advises a correspondent who is anxious about traveling with a friend, and another trying to cope with bigoted family members.

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  7. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  8. Five new cartoons by Liana Finck!

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  9. How to flirt without anyone ever finding out.

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  10. I still get nightmares because of Gooey Gus

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  11. This is it, boys. We've found our sound.

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  12. A new set of horoscopes from Madame Clairevoyant.

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  13. Madeline Kahn and Carol Burnett sang a duet in the 1970s, creating the mathematical definition of "brassiness."

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