Read an excerpt from "Beyond Measure"

Listicles are loved by many, and probably scorned by an equal number of people.

So the headline "What If… Listicles Are Actually an Ancient Form of Writing and Narrative?" on a book excerpt had our eyebrows shooting sky-high.

The book in question is Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James Vincent; the excerpt from Beyond Measure addressing lists is up at Literary Hub.

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