Refreshed at 0900GMT ThursdayWriting Worth Reading | July 29, 2010

1 Intelligent Life has a Tasmanian notebook from Nicholas Shakespeare, featuring the discovery of Charles Darwin's monkey's skull, the fate of the man who founded Claridges, and the funeral of the man who invented the satellite dish

2 Harper's Magazine totters. They put everything behind a pay wall, and everybody forgot about them

3 Creator of "Calvin and Hobbes" gives first interview in 15 years: "Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!"