Things I learned lately 13 Sep

• There Are 36 Countries Within 1,000km From Just Outside Prague.
• The Icelandic government has agreed to buy out residential properties in Grindavík due to the town becoming uninhabitable after recent volcanic eruptions. The government has proposed to pay 95% of the insurance value of all residential housing in the town, at a cost of around USD$440 million. The buyout is necessary because Grindavík has been subject to repeated seismic activity since late 2023. About 3,700 inhabitants have been evacuated due to the risk of further eruptions.
• Several universities are now offering dedicated programs and certificates specifically focused on AI in art and design.
• Quotation marks originally looked like upside down commas because that’s what they were. In the 16th century, a form of punctuation that resembled commas was used in the margins of texts to indicate quoted material. These were known as "inverted commas" because they were essentially commas that had been rotated or inverted. This practice was first noted in the work of Henry Denham, who used outward-facing commas in the margins to indicate quotations.
• Before 1992, we didn’t know how to make mass produced, efficient blue-coloured LEDs, only red and green.