Have Some Pi: HodgePodge for Mar. 13

Splice of life

Two minutes into discussing the usage of commas with compound subjects and predicates, copy editor Mary Norris drops the line “it gets more complicated.” Check on the first episode of a new video series from the New Yorker: The Comma Queen.

Peek scream

The Wilhelm Scream is the world’s most overused movie sound effect. Pricenomics takes a look at where it came from and where it’s going.

In the slow lane

Why does your brain hate slowpokes?

Gone blog

Major tech blog GigaOm shut down this week. Recode has the details, but suffice it to say it’s kind of a bummer.

I did… not well

Take this quiz to find out if you can tell which items were written by a computer and a human.

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