The Asterisk Has Been Helping Us Qualify Our Sentences For Over Two Millennia (Cool Weird Awesome 565)
The new book “Hyphens and Hashtags” looks at where all our punctuation marks have come from. Some of them, like the highly versatile asterisk, have been around for thousands of years. Plus: if you've had a week that made you want to scream, Japan has a Screambulance that may help.