Linkdump #49

A fun little informational video about a Mercury Arc Rectifier: https://tinyurl.com/y7w94rhj

An amazing octopus coffee table that someone should absolutely get me for Christmas: https://tinyurl.com/y2d2af8u

“On Every Page May I Present A Lion or An Elephant,” a children’s poem by Soviet Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsy, illustrated by Futurist artist Kirill Zdanevich: https://tinyurl.com/y2jgh7d6

UTSA Libraries Special Collections present a selection of recipes from the Mexican Cookbook Collection, the largest in the nation: https://tinyurl.com/y3pdbuo6

That time when the French had to create a new law to fend off all the people who kept complaining that sounds exist in the countryside: https://tinyurl.com/y5z4ggyk

A cottage haunted by the ghosts of tuberculosis: https://tinyurl.com/y2yjt6ov

Medieval medicine was actually pretty fantastic sometimes: https://tinyurl.com/yyquzlnp

A lovely Instagram account by an artist who colorizes historical photos: https://tinyurl.com/y53cotpe

Introducing “Mew”, the furry, purry theremin: https://tinyurl.com/y4vxu8rc

Philippe Collin’s The Last Days of Immanuel Kant from 1996  follows the  philosopher as he’s anticipating his death, “yet it’s a physical comedy filled with neo-slapstick intimacy—one of the rare cinematic heirs to the works of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton.”: https://tinyurl.com/y3dxexsm

A YouTube channel showing various electronic artists improvising a new track in under ten minutes: https://tinyurl.com/k8tx4k5

A digital bear blossoms into life before your eyes: https://tinyurl.com/yy8jpqxy

The paper sculptures of artist Michael Velliquette: https://tinyurl.com/y3wdjxpk

Glorious portraits from Mulletfest 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y699jk3e

A short film that uses a form of visual poetry to tell a story of whimsy and modern angst (sound on): https://tinyurl.com/y6xxlvnv

If Tarot cards were cats: https://tinyurl.com/y38zlerl

“Run You Clever Boy” by Csekk István: https://tinyurl.com/y6sheho6

(Image source: https://tinyurl.com/y67o2wbu)

Linkdump #48

Butterflies are metal: https://tinyurl.com/yytzrcg9

This is officially my new favorite goth music video (sound on): https://tinyurl.com/yy6kvsfb

A couple of fun facts about triceratops skin: https://tinyurl.com/yyflyoyh

Japanese biologists discover that bacteria can essentially hibernate for more than 100 million years: https://tinyurl.com/y3xe37j2

So simple yet so mesmerizing: https://tinyurl.com/y3emsaw3

Do you like bugs? Do you like playing with makeup? Well here ya go: https://tinyurl.com/y6d79t3d

Theirtube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people’s YouTube. I’ve honestly been a bit too scared to click on any of the options: https://tinyurl.com/y47koqhe

Rhiannon Giddens, recently named the new Artistic Director of Silkroad, makes wonderful music with Silkroad founder Yo-Yo Ma: https://tinyurl.com/y35u795l

The time when Zora Neale Hurston studied zombies: https://tinyurl.com/y5urbxng

Another interesting little anatomy lesson from Anatomika.science: https://tinyurl.com/y4sf6rgg

I am in love with pretty much all of these tattoos: https://tinyurl.com/y5lk5o32

Well that’s some impressive footwork: https://tinyurl.com/y5xgeat6

The mathematics of spiral honeycombs: https://tinyurl.com/y5c7nc6f

“Watch Metropolis’ Cinematically Innovative Dance Scene, Restored as Fritz Lang Intended It to Be Seen (1927)”: https://tinyurl.com/yxz2lxof

Browse through the entries at Potato Photographer of the Year 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y6obmdkg

Enjoy a gallery of high-speed photography by Andrew Davidhazy: https://tinyurl.com/y2hxtu4u

Visualizations of numerical fluid flow simulations by Mark Stock: https://tinyurl.com/y5fs2dvz

Linkdump #47

RUDA, named after the potent rue plant, is a collective of 11 female and nonbinary documentary photographers from Latin America. It formed in September 2018 as an answer to the lack of female representation in the region and the need to portray social developments from the female and local gaze: https://tinyurl.com/y55sewhb

A lovely collection of 19th century Japanese fireman’s coats: https://tinyurl.com/tfha9uw

Sandra Boynton presents a delightful cat singing in French. The song is about singing in French (“Chanson Profonde” means “Profound Song”). You might enjoy it without reading the captions, but you will enjoy more if you do: https://tinyurl.com/y3ka8z9c

Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery: https://tinyurl.com/y5jtonqz

Dance, Dance, while the hive collapses. A poem by Tiffany Higgins: https://tinyurl.com/y2mp9edr

From gurgling liquids to crackling fire to rainbow-colored fur, a range of materials envelop an indistinct figure in Universal Everything’s new animation: https://tinyurl.com/yyj3nmwc

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. I feel so old right now: https://tinyurl.com/yyurwo9l

The Butterfly, a Russian animated short from 1972: https://tinyurl.com/yxt8c8e9

Ooooh, here’s your chance to own your very own haunted house: https://tinyurl.com/yyeesmu3

The handwritten first draft of Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’: https://tinyurl.com/y4tvekb3

The seminal but untold stories of a working-class East London borough that pioneered rave culture: https://tinyurl.com/yynnbos2

M U R D E R B E A N S: https://tinyurl.com/yxnny8yo

Photogrammetry models of London by David Fletcher: https://tinyurl.com/y5xg54f3

Playing a musical instrument with wet hands usually falls somewhere between a bad idea and a very bad idea indeed. The Cristal Baschet, however, requires its players to keep their hands wet at all times, and that’s hardly the only sense in which it’s an exceptional musical instrument: https://tinyurl.com/y4u9yotf

The UK’s Butterfly Conservation organization is currently holding its annual Big Butterfly Count. Every year Butterfly Conservation asks members of the public to take part in a national survey on the health of the UK’s butterfly species by spending 15 minutes counting butterflies: https://tinyurl.com/y62jehsq

Anthropologist Helen Fisher tells us what the biology of love is: https://tinyurl.com/yx8olr5r

Denise Lu expands on transit chimes by chord interval: https://tinyurl.com/y2lyzzvl

How memory starts out as an oral process, and then goes into stable records, and mostly fades: https://tinyurl.com/y7qtzyc4

A video about the history of Danish architectural paint colors: https://tinyurl.com/y3d9fdl6

Socialism’s DIY Computer: https://tinyurl.com/y6fpa5jw

A delightful video about the exciting and action-packed world of mosquito testing: https://tinyurl.com/yxz66m3p

A lovely zoomable chart of 500 exoplanets: https://tinyurl.com/yxlgrp6h

(Image source: https://tinyurl.com/yy456qv7)

Linkdump #46

The weird and wonderful drawings of Travis Louie: https://tinyurl.com/y3hun3oc

Kill some time with Bongo Cat: https://tinyurl.com/yb4qz8hn

An interactive page where you can play with and learn about light and shadow: https://tinyurl.com/y76vxtj4

Disabled Queer poet Jillian Weise upends ableist assumptions in “Cyborg Detective”: https://tinyurl.com/y4e67mcf

The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia. Today the discoveries from centuries ago are well known, but despite the superficial simplicity of Earth revolving around its axis and orbiting the Sun, the interaction between those two actually forms a fairly complex system: https://tinyurl.com/y24e3jut

Play with a virtual Enigma Machine: https://tinyurl.com/y2l6hlyy

Create you own animated soundscapes: https://tinyurl.com/y3ondbfc

VeoLuz is an exploration-focused playground and an artistic tool. It attempts to mimic the behavior of photons as they interact with barriers of various kinds − those that absorb light, those that reflect light, and those that refract light: https://tinyurl.com/y3d8s3m3

An oral history of Big Mouth Billy Bass: https://tinyurl.com/y3vn5mtv

The decision was made that a valley in the Apuseni Mountains would become a settling basin for the largest copper mine in Romania. The fact that the small, beautiful village of Geamăna lay in the middle of this valley did not play a major role. It was decided that around 1,000 residents would be simply relocated: https://tinyurl.com/y4epmjo4

Lupine is one of my favorite flowers: https://tinyurl.com/y5dundcg

One way to manage pests in your garden: https://tinyurl.com/yybl5d9k

The glitching wooden sculptures of artist Han Hsu-Tung: https://tinyurl.com/y5yrysoq

How a Canadian built a DIY nuclear bunker from 42 buried buses and plenty of concrete: https://tinyurl.com/y79phkv6

Archaeological finds helping us better understand the history of smallpox: https://tinyurl.com/y5zanklf

When threatened, the brown shyshark curls into a circle with its tail over its eyes, which is the origin of the name “shyshark”: https://tinyurl.com/yxal49v5

Video of an impressive full back tattoo (NSFW because naked butt): https://tinyurl.com/y5pfq6hz

Some charming illustrations and animations by artist Katy Daft: https://tinyurl.com/yxuzvsen

Ask A Mortician (one of my favorite Youtube accounts) does an episode about the Waco siege: https://tinyurl.com/y457xwma

Oof, I love getting tattoos but I’m not sure I could handle it on my palm: https://tinyurl.com/yydckwfj

Linkdump #45

Vocal ranges of various singers: https://tinyurl.com/y2rt3g2q

Classical Gas was written in August, 1967; recorded for The Mason Williams Phonograph Record album in November, 1967; released as a single in February, 1968, and became a hit six months later in the Summer of 1968. It was also one of the earliest records that used a visual to help promote it on television, which probably qualifies it as one of the earliest music videos: https://tinyurl.com/y3cma6rx

How an old miner’s lamps use calcium, water and flammable gases to create light: https://tinyurl.com/y5mnksex

A sacred Inuit hunting dance: https://tinyurl.com/yxsm37g4

While digital photography and image-editing software have brought about an increased awareness of the degree to which camera images can be manipulated, the practice of doctoring photographs has existed since the medium was invented: https://tinyurl.com/yyqakysq

That time when North Carolina tried breeding Black people out of existence: https://tinyurl.com/y4u3bhey

If you’ve never heard of the Nebraska Ashfall Fossil beds, it’s a rare and wonderful glimpse into the past: https://tinyurl.com/y4mjpl3z

This looks like a hilariously terrible idea: https://tinyurl.com/lez97vm

Ridiculously specific niche content for metalheads who like birds: https://tinyurl.com/y2jlp6kj

Forced rhubarb, which is made to mature in near total darkness, grows at such an alarming rate—as much as an inch a day—that it actually makes squeaks, creaks, and pops as it gets bigger: https://tinyurl.com/y7yw9d6v

A video of Puan Dayang, an Adiguru or Master Artisan in the craft of Songket weaving from Kampung Rejang in Sarawa: https://tinyurl.com/y6gfus89

“Let’s Window Shop for French Fairytale Homes”: https://tinyurl.com/yxlzqxc3

Genealogy website MyHeritage has launched a free, easy-to-use Photo Enhancer tool that uses deep learning technology to turn blurry or faded family photos into sharp snaps in a single click. (You have to sign up for an account): https://tinyurl.com/y4kakgaw

Radioactive metamorphosis is a two-way street. So what about the spider who bit Peter Parker? What ever became of him?: https://tinyurl.com/y4tlagfh

Exploring the Iron Age Gjellstad burial mound: https://tinyurl.com/y36n4fl8

A rebuttal to recent claims that the infamous “Screaming Woman” mummy died screaming because of a heart attack: https://tinyurl.com/y6n3x3zr

The mysterious death of a mysterious hiker (article contains a non-gory image of the deceased man’s body): https://tinyurl.com/y3kj4pav

Enhanced videos of historic moon landings: https://tinyurl.com/y5aewh4u

“Eat Like You’re in the USSR With ‘The Soviet Diet Cookbook’”: https://tinyurl.com/yxokjalz

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too: https://tinyurl.com/y4k6z9j4

If you’ve never seen the work of Neri Oxman, you definitely should: https://tinyurl.com/yyp8vlxq

Linkdump #44

‘First’ Māori astronomy school in the modern era opens in Bay of Plenty: https://tinyurl.com/yy6n3v4c

“Postage Stamp Protest”, a series of tiny protest signs to be carried through the mail system: https://tinyurl.com/yyy46t52

Take a guided tour of a barn filled with 300 classic cars: https://tinyurl.com/u3ehah3

The days when learning outside was considered normal: https://tinyurl.com/y9tshgja

How one couple has lived for 29 years on an island they built themselves: https://tinyurl.com/y9tshgja

Tumblr Gets Deep: https://tinyurl.com/y58dhvv7

The Art Deco buildings with a colonial past in the Democratic Republic of Congo: https://tinyurl.com/y23d49uj

While hunting undersea enemies is one of the primary jobs of modern attack submarines, only one undersea sub engagement has ever taken place, under decidedly unique circumstances: https://tinyurl.com/yyf5s66j

An app called Randonautica sends users to explore the world in unexpected ways: https://tinyurl.com/y85vz6vd

I’m so impressed by people who can make consume pieces like this: https://tinyurl.com/y27bwm42

Cigarettes, Space Invaders and the birth of the game watch: https://tinyurl.com/y6s6cvvu

Wondering what to do this weekend? Maybe immerse yourself in the miraculous world of Powland: https://tinyurl.com/y4f5uhnz

Working in IT can be challenging: https://tinyurl.com/y3lg92hc

For all its transcendental appeals, art has always been inextricably grounded in the material realities of its production, an entwinement most evident in the intriguing history of artists’ colors. Honing in on painting’s primary trio of red, yellow, and blue, Philip Ball explores the science and stories behind the pigments, from the red ochre of Lascaux to Yves Klein’s blue: https://tinyurl.com/y5p8g6kx

Kok boru is an ancient Kyrgyz sport played on horseback with the carcass of a goat. But in a world where many old traditions are dying out for good, kok boru remains more popular than football — and has even undergone a revival: https://tinyurl.com/y2t4rhan

Raymond Chandler’s 36 great unused titles: https://tinyurl.com/y3wjarnu

How well do you know locations of heritages and war battles?: https://tinyurl.com/y2u3luwq

How a village’s first totem pole ceremony in a century sparked a spiritual awakening: https://tinyurl.com/y4mko28w

An Exclusive First Look at Star Trek: Lower Decks: https://tinyurl.com/y4h34pk7

I WANT: https://tinyurl.com/yyega4pa

Some of the damage caused by the recent quake in the Aleutians. Yes, that’s a fairly normal road for rural Alaska. Most paving materials can’t withstand the winter temperatures, so there’s no point in wasting money on them: https://tinyurl.com/y5u5v7nb

Charming illustrated gif from Thoka Maer: https://tinyurl.com/y4eboa5c

Digital Grotesque II – a full-scale 3D printed grotto – premiers at Centre Pompidou’s Imprimer le monde exhibition: https://tinyurl.com/y54qd6tt

Linkdump #43

The billion-bug highway you can’t see: https://tinyurl.com/y4z646ph

Some lovely surfboard mosaics: https://tinyurl.com/y6k7vp7g

The fish that shouldn’t exist: https://tinyurl.com/y68euc55

Six Cats Under is a little point-and-click puzzle game where you rescue your herd of cats by directing them with your poltergeist powers (the room is wider than your screen so make sure you don’t miss the bathroom way over to the left): https://tinyurl.com/y6oflu79

The Real McKenzies’ video for “Catch Me When I Fall” is a pleasing blend of bad animation, Highlander scenes, and pop-punk: https://tinyurl.com/yxr6ncue

A stop-motion short about Trajan’s Column: https://tinyurl.com/y4uzkh6h

Cormack McCarthy’s King Of The Hill: https://tinyurl.com/y4rbh4kt

Sweet piece of alien bone art: https://tinyurl.com/y3eayesa

I love this tattoo artist’s work (apologies if I’ve posted this before): https://tinyurl.com/y4ruhfzy

In Palestine, protecting one of the world’s oldest olive trees is a 24/7 job: https://tinyurl.com/y2jzxsfu

A beatboxing monk who creates music for meditation: https://tinyurl.com/y2nbj5d7

Unrestored 109-year-old motorcycle sets auction record at $225,000: https://tinyurl.com/y4xhtcg2

Mr. Chavis Flagg spreading some joy: https://tinyurl.com/ycgdhrvc

“I painted a large multi pane ‘dissection’ of the human head for my Cerebraphile art project“: https://tinyurl.com/y5jgas7r

Based on an audio recording from a 2016 trip to the Amazon, Australian artist Andy Thomas interprets birds’ trills, squawks, and coos through an animated series of digital sculptures: https://tinyurl.com/yy39x6n6

One Twitter user shared photos from a brilliant exhibition of 3D-printed replicas of Imelda Marcos’ jewelry: https://tinyurl.com/y4lfehho

“The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy”: https://tinyurl.com/y5eqafzo

I’m kinda tempted: https://tinyurl.com/y2xz4hpe

Archaeologists find evidence that humans were in the Americas up to 30,000 years ago, but there are some legitimate issues with dating this sort of evidence: https://tinyurl.com/y28gxon7

There was a time when it was popular to castrate boys in order to preserve their singing voices. Here is the only surviving recording of a Castrato: https://tinyurl.com/yxq8gy7m

Art made with human bones, “I was deeply affected by the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in Orlando. Having lost a sister to domestic gun violence, I struggled through the intense range of emotions. I stayed up three days until this piece was completed. It is a powerful visual that addresses forgotten rationality, the exaggerated sense of virility, and unadulterated idolization over humanity”: https://tinyurl.com/y62rsxd4

An artist dad turns his kids’ drawings into hilariously disturbing real-life beasties: https://tinyurl.com/zptom9s

How to do a Victorian hairstyle when you just can’t be bothered to be perfect: https://tinyurl.com/y3pbuu94

Young drag performer Nathan is one of the last people to speak Gayle – a secret language the gay community were forced to invent during Apartheid. He finds out about Louis, an original Gayle speaker living in a conservative desert town in South Africa and wants to put on a performance with him. These men, two generations apart and from different cultural and racial backgrounds have never met – and have no idea how the town will react: https://tinyurl.com/y526hh6r

A bit about modern Hopi farming: https://tinyurl.com/y5l2ehvm

The award-winning video “Visit with Respect” shows how Pueblo people feel about visiting archaeological sites. It was filmed at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Acoma Pueblo and features members of the Hopi Tribe and Santa Clara and Acoma Pueblos: https://tinyurl.com/y66pjtwr

Linkdump #42

KV-64 is an ancient Egyptian royal tomb with a mystery. 500 years after it was sealed, it was re-opened and another occupant was added: the daughter of a high-ranking priest: https://tinyurl.com/y5tv79s3

A look at some of the mosaics inside Hagia Sophia: https://tinyurl.com/yxefb44w

“Indian Villages”: The Story Behind a Map: https://tinyurl.com/y2tua4jz

In this animation, eight common species of frogs (including a toad!) give their calls through the season. Wood frog, boreal chorus frog, spring peeper, northern leopard frog, American toad, Gray treefrog, green frog, and bullfrog: https://tinyurl.com/y6fqo39t

Some rather snazzy-looking furniture made from coins: https://tinyurl.com/y364fe6w

The 100 Wishes of Hatcham: https://tinyurl.com/y5eoyfab

“Reaching Out: That’s Me In Photo That Defined The Vietnam War” (article shows images of wounded soldiers): https://tinyurl.com/y52682k5

An interesting way to display your photos and art: https://tinyurl.com/y4aosjah

A happy jumping spider in her new hammock: https://tinyurl.com/y6q6q7kl

HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE: https://tinyurl.com/y5edeaow

Scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have released a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever created. The new results come from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), an SDSS collaboration of more than 100 astrophysicists worldwide. They provide detailed measurements of more than two million galaxies and quasars, filling in 11 billion years in our picture of the universe: https://tinyurl.com/yyqqdvon

That’s right, at long last your dreams have come true. Someone has finally made a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit in Classical Latin: https://tinyurl.com/y65y9fln

“I love being a woman on the internet”: https://tinyurl.com/y2qge5d4

Science Museum asks public to help identify mystery items: https://tinyurl.com/yxqvdh7z

For 60 years, Americans poisoned themselves by pumping leaded gasoline into their cars. Then Clair Patterson, a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth, took on a billion-dollar industry: https://tinyurl.com/y5dgc8rv

The skull of an Alligator Gar. Nice fishy!: https://tinyurl.com/y39vxo49

The lost art of “Scrap Book” fancy dress: https://tinyurl.com/y5kmbxk2

The “Shiver House”: https://tinyurl.com/yyr9b5j8

Research Explainer: The chemistry across a “forest” of giant clams: https://tinyurl.com/y3c4vxka

Scrape together a few million dollars and a real-life Barbie house can be yours!!: https://tinyurl.com/y4m6cosg

“This is a cookbook,” Dorothy Iannone’s deeply personal, handwritten collection of recipes begins. “Please read the remarks.” It’s a fair request. Dedicated to her lover and muse Dieter Roth, Iannone’s 1969 A Cookbook drips with love and color”: https://tinyurl.com/y577eltt

Wooden figure of a lady with built-in clavichord and draws, c. 1780: https://tinyurl.com/y4wzjcsv

Linkdump #41

Fun with pet hair. I’m actually kind of impressed TBH: https://tinyurl.com/y69lvl2m

For $10 you can experience a 360 Virtual Tour of the Neon Museum in Las Vegas: https://tinyurl.com/y5x7ddkm

A 1980s anti-teen-sex PSA hosted by Justine Bateman, with Jason Bateman and Ted Danson guest-starring. Yes it’s as horrible as you think it will be: https://tinyurl.com/y3bm6lhw

London-based artist Leonardo Ulian merges two disparate elements in his sprawling assemblages: he speckles analog equipment with an array of electronic pieces found in digital devices: https://tinyurl.com/y3etay3k

What could be more refreshing than spending a day in soggy wool? (shudder): https://tinyurl.com/y6s9fffo

Pigs, but as you scroll they get longer — a thread: https://tinyurl.com/y3syehyg

“I love the round modular synth dog”: https://tinyurl.com/yxjehw4q

Inadequately-sized window of the day: https://tinyurl.com/yy6rmsk8

The story of bottle-dash stucco: https://tinyurl.com/y4vcd3uj

Have you ever wondered how ancient indigenous cultures maintain so much information about the thousands of species of plants and animals—without writing it down? Traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines are key to a powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world. It’s intricately tied to the landscape and it can be applied in our everyday lives: https://tinyurl.com/y6tmeo7a

A whole website dedicated to railway history and design: https://tinyurl.com/y369frnt

Cool little stop-motion film that includes a “making of” segment: https://tinyurl.com/y35jg6s3

Philadelphia artist Kit Layfield has created “New Technologies and Face Mask Innovations”, a very timely series of illustrations featuring exaggerated protective face masks that also act as planters, fish bowls, and tiny arboretums that can flourish in an otherwise hostile climate: https://tinyurl.com/y4e5oo54

For the past 17 years, Snowman has served as the keeper of Boston Light, a centuries-old lighthouse, out on a freckle of treeless land in Boston Harbor, in Massachusetts: https://tinyurl.com/y5sauaef

Scientists unlocked the secret of how ultra-black fish absorb light: https://tinyurl.com/y64b8kr4

A clever piece of embroidery: https://tinyurl.com/y3vdrvta

Meet the “Narluga”: https://tinyurl.com/yxvctega

Imagine the forts you could make with these things: https://tinyurl.com/y6glo4mj

The crazy world of speedboat racing. I seriously got anxiety just watching this: https://tinyurl.com/yxloj9qd

Here’s a down-home, boot-stomping’ tune for ya: https://tinyurl.com/y6cqdgx7

Some of the stranger books found in the Bodleian Library: https://tinyurl.com/y5bvf576

A wonderful modern representation of Bronze Age Minoan fashion by illustrator Mirjam Löfgren (NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/yxgrzd33

Linkdump #40

Napping Level: Expert: https://tinyurl.com/yyq8tfyw

The ants with doors for heads: https://tinyurl.com/yxf3oray

Cooooooool: https://tinyurl.com/y6f245zu

The 18th century woman who commissioned a wax effigy of herself for some reason: https://tinyurl.com/y3br28k9

No, NASA did not change your star sign: https://tinyurl.com/yygmbm44

The world’s first folding car: https://tinyurl.com/yythp6cm

A study on the prevalence of syphilis in Georgian London: https://tinyurl.com/y5ux62lg

“Merchants in Motion“, a photo series by Lots Heerink: https://tinyurl.com/y56l5nz2

Relax and enjoy these puffins in a field of flowers: https://tinyurl.com/y3z6glwg

A selection of interesting instruments from around the world: https://tinyurl.com/ycdzfqre

Dropping a little oil platform knowledge: https://tinyurl.com/y3kxkpqz

Six bittersweet Albanian poems on love and freedom: https://tinyurl.com/yxswp3wo

Classical pianist adds extended harmony to ‘deranged yelling cat’, and a masterpiece unfolds: https://tinyurl.com/y2lz69tr

All the companies that Disney owns (you should be able to zoom in): https://tinyurl.com/y3ylvo6q

A website devoted entirely to algae: https://tinyurl.com/y6epd6tj

I was already aware of the Number Station phenomenon, but last night I delved into the rabbit hole of number station enthusiasts. Man, they’re really into this: https://tinyurl.com/yau356hx

Dancin’ in the rain: https://tinyurl.com/y2zyp8qx

“Punk archaeologists” explain that they went looking for more than just video-game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill: https://tinyurl.com/y5h7e3yy

The “Forest God” series of horror paintings by Oleg Vdovenko show a stark, violent, and captivating mastery of light and shadow, both literally and metaphorically (Kinda NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/y68xja6v

Most everyone has heard of Chang and Eng, the world’s most famous Siamese twins, and the long, rich, and complex story of their lives. But one part of that story that is often overlooked is the fact that they were also slaveowners: https://tinyurl.com/y3lcbzfx

Linkdump #39

One of the lasting and far-reaching impacts of wildfires: https://tinyurl.com/y3eehhpm

Artist Nathalie Miebach maps the data from extreme weather patterns into her basketry sculptures: https://tinyurl.com/y37ab4pk

So if you weren’t aware, some newborns can lactate: https://tinyurl.com/y5sb5s2y

The astounding 646 tracks isn’t the only thing that makes Jacob Collier’s newest single absolutely remarkable – the second chorus modulates to C half-sharp major, a key most of us have never heard: https://tinyurl.com/yxf73bpj

“Harmony”, an emotional doodle from multidisciplinary artist Michal Levy (who also has Synesthesia): https://tinyurl.com/y2ozecgq

A letter from Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera: https://tinyurl.com/y59qaza2

Ever wonder how pangolins groom themselves?: https://tinyurl.com/y4cq2c5j

Beneath this old pier lives the worlds largest population of the Endangered Sydney Whites Seahorse. This pier is also home to a number of the worlds largest seahorses, the Big-Belly Seahorse: https://tinyurl.com/yyl3we8y

If you’re not too freaked out by guts, here’s an interesting Instagram post that examines liver cancer in a snake (which is now deceased): https://tinyurl.com/y5jb4bka

Behold the glorious Squidworm!: https://tinyurl.com/y3kcsf6s

A look inside the world’s most expensive kaleidoscope (If I was ridiculously rich I would probably get one, not gonna lie): https://tinyurl.com/yxnvcqmu

The top trending Google searches in every US state throughout the 2010s: https://tinyurl.com/y4x6gknb

Why Singapore has one of the highest home ownership rates: https://tinyurl.com/y8mvxgb8

I mean who wouldn’t expect a barista to have a PhD?: https://tinyurl.com/y4n7ts8d

How about some homemade flaming UFO action: https://tinyurl.com/y25xxmf4

What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?: https://tinyurl.com/y678mglw

Disney Reopening Video but it’s Stephen King’s The Stand: https://tinyurl.com/yxr4kxch

This is the very first recording of the song, “Hey Joe”, ever made. It’s a home demo recording by the song’s writer, Billy Roberts: https://tinyurl.com/y3yz96pz

I seriously cannot WAIT to see this movie. “Titled ‘Hominid’, the video is an animated teaser based on the Hominid series of photo composites by artist Brian Andrews”: https://tinyurl.com/y3ae4ldf

A bilateral gynandromorph (an organism that contains both male and female characteristics) Stag Beetle: https://tinyurl.com/y2lvdh4o

Imagine your stress-reliving screams echoing through the majestic landscapes of Iceland: https://tinyurl.com/y45csbkx

Linkdump #38

A professional illustrator from South Devon decided to start drawing some of the wonders she found in nature: https://tinyurl.com/yaa62hhz

Oliver Sacks remembers his bodybuilding days at Venice Beach: https://tinyurl.com/y7momojq

A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing over a jug of raisin wine shows that we need to think about crime outside our atmosphere now: https://tinyurl.com/y8l8g94e

Past lunar landing sites: https://tinyurl.com/ybdtdko2

THANKS I HATE IT: https://tinyurl.com/ydex9zce

An extremely in-depth analysis of The Girl From Ipanema: https://tinyurl.com/y9se9cpf

Remember the dance audition in Save The Last Dance? Yeah, about that: https://tinyurl.com/y7qznpzr

The creativity of America’s first “fine dining” restaurants: https://tinyurl.com/y7l79jf2

We never had toys like this when I was a kid: https://tinyurl.com/y8c3wh53

If you’re interested in the evolution and anatomy of extinct critters, this blog is pretty cool: https://tinyurl.com/ydylw79t

Experts, poets and artists are working together to create a literary field guide for the Cascadia region of B.C., Washington State and Oregon, organized by “kinship clusters” rather than western taxonomy: https://tinyurl.com/y7vbguwh

This guy’s sweet acrobat automata: https://tinyurl.com/y9f9lypx

How to survive an atomic bomb, 1950 edition: https://tinyurl.com/yc5bm9to

The one million-square-foot AIDS memorial quilt is now entirely online: https://tinyurl.com/y8frx3z9

Scanning electron microscope images from minuscule to tiny animals: https://tinyurl.com/ycvveuo2

In his long term exploration of masculinity, Bharat Sikka intertwines the personal and the collective by continually finding new ways to investigate and represent his homeland, India: https://tinyurl.com/y6uunf8w

The U.S. Army has a Twitch channel that it uses to fish for potential recruits: https://tinyurl.com/y7y5a8f2

FYI, lizards can grow multiple tails: https://tinyurl.com/y7q2egye

You know those table saws that instantly stop when they detect something soft? Well here’s what that looks like at 19,000 frames per second: https://tinyurl.com/yb4mjvpx

EVERYTHING IS CAAAAAAAAAAAAKE: https://tinyurl.com/yb2edo4c

Young lad builds a haircutting robot, isn’t decapitated: https://tinyurl.com/y8jhxfe7

This artist does such wonderful things with polymer clay: https://tinyurl.com/ycqgzaak

Linkdump #37

Comparing childhood malnutrition in the Victorian era and today: https://tinyurl.com/y9cqx29m

Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a gypsum death mask: https://tinyurl.com/yboy3ogy

Please enjoy the Swan Lake Bath Ballet. So. Many. Feathers.: https://tinyurl.com/y7335o42

Exploring an ancient Australian Aboriginal site under the sea: https://tinyurl.com/y9ttwuey

Experience the fun and adventure of Medieval Death Bot!: https://tinyurl.com/y7ufqr6y

I refuse to call jello “cake”, but this is still kinda cool: https://tinyurl.com/y9eduuvh

An artist shares her experiences with the aftermath of the wildfires on Kangaroo Island: https://tinyurl.com/y759mb8z

Egypt isn’t the only African nation with pyramids: https://tinyurl.com/y9oe5whb

For some reason, here’s an in-depth analysis of the women’s tops advertised on the Goodwill website: https://tinyurl.com/y9dyawcj

Weird feet in nature: https://tinyurl.com/ycob3cpp

The joys of parenting in 27 tweets: https://tinyurl.com/yc6my6q7

Ooooo, I’m loving this tattoo: https://tinyurl.com/ydh9g8vz

Archaeologists find evidence of the earliest known glass production south of the Sahara: https://tinyurl.com/y93yjqh5

The Tahitian Mourner’s Costume in the British Museum is one of the most complete versions of this type of costume anywhere in the world: https://tinyurl.com/yaapzkm7

One of my favorite artists: https://tinyurl.com/y76825g4

The Library of Congress has published over 11,000 high-resolution shots of U.S. roadside attractions, and released the images into the public domain: https://tinyurl.com/yxquknbn

It’s wise to do some research before buying bee houses: https://tinyurl.com/y7d6vg7x

The Mallows Bay ghost fleet: https://tinyurl.com/yd3ywlrf

Cool facts about tree kangaroos: https://tinyurl.com/y8y22dbb

A very pretty new spider species discovered in South Africa: https://tinyurl.com/ya9wjdaj

This Japanese university offers a master’s degree in ninja studies: https://tinyurl.com/ycfxgx5x

Linkdump #36

Sure, just call me out in front of everyone: https://tinyurl.com/yct2scp4

Someone claims they’ve found a long lost Frida Khalo painting, but experts are skeptical: https://tinyurl.com/y7hrmcyq

A fascinating handmade organ thing (with sound): https://tinyurl.com/y7tdlb2t

Follow a pond turtle as it does its pond turtle stuff: https://tinyurl.com/y7956lxw

Judy Dench as York Museum Trust objects: https://tinyurl.com/ybmzzjw8

The complexity of creating scripts for tonal languages: https://tinyurl.com/yb9dz38z

Audubon’s top 100 bird photos from 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y9444yga

Leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and froghoppers in slo-mo: https://tinyurl.com/yafek8rz

The John Muir Laws blog features lots of educational resources about nature journaling and sketching in a variety of mediums, intermixed with conservation information: https://tinyurl.com/y74yp6en

A liquid filled Klein bottle: https://tinyurl.com/ybqqrako

A look into a Sino-Tibetan book that’s believed to have been printed as early as 1410: https://tinyurl.com/y7xhyman

Kickass Women in History: Malalai of Maiwand: https://tinyurl.com/yb88wxsp

An animated guide to muscle tissue: https://tinyurl.com/yd52gltq

“What seems to be the problem here!?: https://tinyurl.com/ybrplo9r

Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q’eswachaka Bridge: https://tinyurl.com/nkkufd5

Now that’s a treehouse: https://tinyurl.com/y8dbxbkh

How one man turned the busiest international border crossing in North America into the centerpiece of his empire: https://tinyurl.com/y8q24c9j

The world’s tiniest bazaar: https://tinyurl.com/y9fjp9s7

An antique automata snuffbox: https://tinyurl.com/y9uqwghe

Some vintage documentaries to watch on those sleepless nights: https://tinyurl.com/yc48r98c

(Fire gifs source: https://tinyurl.com/ybxn4c5p)

Linkdump #35

An album of historical photos of Indigenous Australians: https://tinyurl.com/ydbhzn9l

Murder mittens: https://tinyurl.com/ya66htnl

“Buzzwords, Bogeymen, and Banalities of Pseudoarchaeology: Göbekli Tepe”: https://tinyurl.com/yajuj26q

Explore the wonders of the Washing Machine Museum: https://tinyurl.com/ydfpjqc2

20 years of global seismic activity: https://tinyurl.com/y72qgszf

I mean it’s really well done but I don’t know how I’d feel about eating it: https://tinyurl.com/y9zbw7cn

Neptune’s moons are weird: https://tinyurl.com/y9to967c

A dramatic telling indeed: https://tinyurl.com/w7oyclt

Groovy, baby: https://tinyurl.com/hb7sc57

You think you know disco? You know NOTHING of disco: https://tinyurl.com/y753wplj

If you’re into high-end art dolls: https://tinyurl.com/y8sjsc2f

Basically Pornhub for bugs: https://tinyurl.com/y8sjsc2f

Music technology of the 70s: https://tinyurl.com/ycyml59a

Well, you’d certainly be visible: https://tinyurl.com/ycpzeu3a

FfffAaaaCcccEeeeSsss: https://tinyurl.com/y9278cbv

An impressive little piece of drawing: https://tinyurl.com/y79wx9e9

The USGS Has a page where you can download and print your own globes of the planets: https://tinyurl.com/yb6skue3

Interesting look at the roots of perennial grains: https://tinyurl.com/y7aj9rtb

Ever wondered what silencers look like on the inside?: https://tinyurl.com/yxc5cwuu

Some photos of what is thought to be one of the oldest settlements in the Central Iranian Plateau: https://tinyurl.com/y95dd9r4

Uuuuuuuggghhhh her sculptures are so amaziiiiiing: https://tinyurl.com/y8dx6csd

Some gorgeous kinetic art: https://tinyurl.com/yceyrtp4

The process of modeling a running Dilophosaurus: https://tinyurl.com/yckpggmy

A fascinating short film about the movies that went down with the Lusitania: https://tinyurl.com/ybmnellw

Some impressive designer cakes: https://tinyurl.com/y8udfcnb

I think I’m in love with this lighthouse: https://tinyurl.com/y8dpkv78

Linkdump #34

This Massive Attack-Portishead mashup is everything I could hope for: https://tinyurl.com/ybby2o4r

The Tangalooma Wrecks: https://tinyurl.com/y9gym6us

Trench art of WWI: https://tinyurl.com/y9dyl8df

The beautiful Western Tragopan: https://tinyurl.com/y8zd5cz6

A story in four shower curtains: https://tinyurl.com/y8pmlrre

“In place of our third annual magazine, Prison Renaissance at Stanford is launching our Special Edition COVID-19 issue. This zine features a collection of artwork and poetry from 5 artists incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, created within the last few months during the pandemic”: https://tinyurl.com/y9ymu5ve

“On your left!”: https://tinyurl.com/y88pxnd3

For those too young to remember the Cold War years, this movie was HUGE when I was a kid: https://tinyurl.com/y9pu786r

“Ever wonder how we made all these crazy machines do all their crazy machine things before computers came along? Wonder no more as we explore the inner workings of a Wurlitzer 3400 series jukebox from 1970”: https://tinyurl.com/stnbvco

Damn teenagers and their rock music!: https://tinyurl.com/zlavqwr

Interwar Polish tango: https://tinyurl.com/y7c9dnnp

Seniors as album covers: https://tinyurl.com/ycfgb9hx

Sand art: https://tinyurl.com/y8tjuaqm

A delightfully rustic Welsh house for sale: https://tinyurl.com/ycc97tvc

Gladiator 2: The strangest sequel never made: https://tinyurl.com/ycf98sfp

Second edition of the Street Art Festival “Rexenera Fest”, in Carballo, Galicia: https://tinyurl.com/y8j6s6fu

Reconstructing ancient ruins with gifs: https://tinyurl.com/ybefgbkx

The lingering legacy of America’s first cookie-cutter suburb: https://tinyurl.com/y72zfycp

A new “smart mask” from Japan: https://tinyurl.com/yd2d9m4h

Bisa Butler’s beautiful quilted portraits of Frederick Douglass, Nina Simone, Jean-Michel Basquiat & more: https://tinyurl.com/y9r4x8q6

Star Trek fans have NEEDS, dammit!: https://tinyurl.com/y8tmzsep

Off-roading, Russian style: https://tinyurl.com/yaw2xzf3

Comparing the wing of a Dromaeosaurid to the wing of a pigeon: https://tinyurl.com/ycqgoh2f

Tired of the view out your window? Try looking out someone else’s window: https://tinyurl.com/ybmkpdh4

An NPR episode about genius composer Erik Satie: https://tinyurl.com/y9lfwtw6

(animation source: https://giphy.com/alcrego/)

Linkdump #33

The Iditarod may not be a big deal to others, but for Alaskans it’s a part of who we are, and its heroes are our heroes: https://tinyurl.com/ybh6k433

Cute little automata cabinet: https://tinyurl.com/yafmply2

Some rather impressive cookie art: https://tinyurl.com/y6u3vqt3

A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: https://tinyurl.com/y7wc8nkq

A graphic and blunt telling of the Srebrenica Massacre. Warning – contains pics of dead bodies: https://tinyurl.com/y87dqog2

Laura Kampf is a Maker who makes videos about making things: https://tinyurl.com/y8u93ukr

Murderfloofs in a ball pit: https://tinyurl.com/y8oe8t3a

The brightest flashlight vs. the blackest black: https://tinyurl.com/y87uk46l

A 24/7 live TV channel, broadcasting an endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera (pretty sure at least some of this is gonna be NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/ycumm8cm

The astronomy of Nabta Playa, an ancient site in Egypt dating from the Middle Neolithic: https://tinyurl.com/y82ma6pn

Cutaway of a 1142-1 Sperry Ball Turret (if you’re claustrophobic you’re probably going to hate this): https://tinyurl.com/y9vrkznx

I think those are marimbas? Or xylophones? In any case, these guys are jammin’: https://tinyurl.com/y7kf3x3g

PARKOUR!!: https://tinyurl.com/ycklwkcb

Who needs an osteologist? Lots of people, apparently: https://tinyurl.com/ycxh2krz

Before you can decolonize a museum collection, you may need to decontaminate it: https://tinyurl.com/ychet7qn

On preserving the traces of revolution: https://tinyurl.com/ycvjoa9n

A lovely historical medical tale involving an unfortunate man’s bladder: https://tinyurl.com/y729k6lv

How a Victorian undertaker invented low-carb dieting: https://tinyurl.com/yczkq2hy

Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection: https://tinyurl.com/ycw4dsta

A nice collection of hand drawn animations: https://tinyurl.com/y7glhn66

Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space: https://tinyurl.com/mc3r244

I’d never heard of the black-and-chestnut eagle before: https://tinyurl.com/y9t4p59f

Gladiator Maximus Chess: https://tinyurl.com/yanc3628

Transforming Guns into Art, by Pedro Reyes: https://tinyurl.com/yd5csw9t

Deep sea monster devours ship: https://tinyurl.com/yak97paf

So anyway, here’s some Japanese bathroom ghosts: https://tinyurl.com/yctrfoz3

Bonus – Everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about the infamous Japanese eyeball-butt ghost: https://tinyurl.com/y9lwb698

Linkdump #32

Watching a comet from the ISS: https://tinyurl.com/ycc8wfzv

Fun with Phonographantasmascopes (I dare you to say that ten times fast): https://tinyurl.com/y88ccpn8

That time when a guy found a creepy house in his attic: https://tinyurl.com/yd2ohz6g

DIOR gets all medieval. Or mythological? Either way, you still can’t afford it: https://tinyurl.com/yc2h4kbu

The strangest architecture in Lebanon: https://tinyurl.com/y8el9fzb

If you’re looking for an air quality tracker: https://tinyurl.com/y7edthnp

From an extremely orderly old-timey catalog of ornaments: https://tinyurl.com/ybskxld3

Browse through a1980s-era Russian textbook (that’s been translated into English): https://tinyurl.com/y96rdvfr

“Kids for Cash” tells the shocking story of the kids for cash scandal which came to light in 2008. Two judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were found guilty of sending thousands of juveniles to detention centers for minor crimes in return from kickbacks from those operating these for-profit facilities: https://tinyurl.com/y7wvorfo

If you’re looking for something chill, here’s a 14 minute walking tour of Húsavík, Iceland: https://tinyurl.com/y9mn6cbd

One of the weirdest whale skulls I’ve seen: https://tinyurl.com/ych8pz97

Also, an Indus River dolphin skull. That scooped out area is where the echolocation jelly organ thingy sits (YES THOSE ARE TOTALLY SCIENCE WORDS). These dolphins rely so much on echolocation that their brain hardly has a visual cortex at all: https://tinyurl.com/y6vbnzw7

Origins of city names in the northern UK: https://tinyurl.com/y7yzqvhs

That time when the Russians tried too reverse engineer an American B-29: https://tinyurl.com/y8nspn8d

We all remember the hero who lobbed his shoes at George W’s head, but there’s actually a long history of people throwing shoes at leaders: https://tinyurl.com/plkztae

Scarfolk Council shares some delightful 1970s beer mats: https://tinyurl.com/ya7nrg94

You may have seen the recent articles about contact between ancient Polynesians and Native Americans. This Polynesian archaeologist has some concerns: https://tinyurl.com/y9qk9cpr

North Carolina botanist Justin Robinson talks about ways that racism and colonialism impact native plants: https://tinyurl.com/y9qnr39v

A plague of blue jellyfish in Israel: https://tinyurl.com/yd9r9hh4

Fulmars are seabirds common to colder climates, such as Scandinavia and Antarctica. When threatened, they vomit a waxy oil that mats the feathers of predators: https://tinyurl.com/y6poay4b

An interactive map of Indigenous territories: https://tinyurl.com/y8jjkfxf

An 89-page paper about all the songs NASA has used to give astronauts a wakeup call: https://tinyurl.com/yav5mtdz

A clumsy accident leads a young girl onto the streets of Mumbai in the hope of making things right. A gentle and touching father/daughter story depicted in exquisite stop-motion from Indian animation mainstay, Studio Eeksaurus: https://tinyurl.com/ycp2so4y

The history of the Autobahn: https://tinyurl.com/yas5uxup

Area woman, who is clearly a fish expert, skillfully rates fish: https://tinyurl.com/ya833b7m

Instagram Accounts for Lovers of Haikyo: Japanese Spooky & Decaying Places: https://tinyurl.com/ycms8lcp

Linkdump #31

Growing blueberries with fire: https://tinyurl.com/yb9kpbd7

A splendid list of all the movies with titles starting in “Night of the”: https://tinyurl.com/yajh55dr

I would totally wear this at Burning Man: https://tinyurl.com/y893fxgd

This puppers has seen some things: https://tinyurl.com/y6v5cqpn

Before his daguerreotype, the French inventor Louis Daguerre unveiled a new kind of “virtual reality” on a British stage: https://tinyurl.com/y7cfhvht

“Green sickness”: https://tinyurl.com/yamqxtoh

Recreating 1750 BCE recipes: https://tinyurl.com/y7a3o947

A detailed lesson on how ancient peoples made fiber out of nettles: https://tinyurl.com/y7k9nwdo

If you’ve ever wondered what summers are like when you live in the north: https://tinyurl.com/y7s7enqn

An interesting type of automaton: https://tinyurl.com/ya9cuqtc

A medieval mass grave in Oslo (While many assume that “mass grave” means there must be dozens or even hundreds of bodies, it only really means “Unusually large number”, which could be as few as three or four bodies): https://tinyurl.com/y9y5ctog

3D data visualization of the Pillars of Creation: https://tinyurl.com/ybpbzkrg

Everything you ever wanted to know about “baby” carrots: https://tinyurl.com/nvzsp9

Lucille Ball is the reason we have Star Trek: https://tinyurl.com/y7w2d2cs

I’m not sure what to do with this information, but it looks cool: https://tinyurl.com/y8ssakzg

How do they make micro mosaics?: https://tinyurl.com/ybxf53jb

Yeah, so, those weird DIY “kitchen hacks” videos that always pop up on Facebook are actually complete crap: https://tinyurl.com/ya7a66wp

Do you love looking at pictures of other people’s pets?: https://tinyurl.com/ycaj8cfk

Linkdump #30

The Kyoto Aquarium has a flowchart illustrating the complicated romantic relationships and breakups between their penguins: https://tinyurl.com/y8yl4jbx

The perfect art heist: https://tinyurl.com/y7cs9o4c

The wonderful world of Brendel flower models: https://tinyurl.com/y83leva9

Plant or tribble? You decide: https://tinyurl.com/y9y2tbln

The surreal bone art of Gerard Geer: https://tinyurl.com/ycz566hw

Before there were gifs, there were phenakistoscopes: https://tinyurl.com/ybjx5ctk

Hmmm, interesting: https://tinyurl.com/y7bfafcq

Some rather impressive stained glass: https://tinyurl.com/ycwmdpbd

Here, enjoy some mesmerizing tube bending: https://tinyurl.com/y7jpdn36

At the turn of the 20th century, a small-town farm boy with little formal education decided he wanted to be the best pilot in the world: https://tinyurl.com/y92e38l7

Cool little gif about how the buttons on a fan work (with sound): https://tinyurl.com/yd2smzmn

If such things appeal to you, here’s a leisurely, four hour train ride in Japan: https://tinyurl.com/ybdysrjt

How Disney’s multiplane filming worked: https://tinyurl.com/y77lp5fg

Some really fascinating devices (click the blue name of each computer to see more about it): https://tinyurl.com/y8ps7wbo

“A candid look at race and equity in the outdoor industry from the perspective of people of color attending the 2018 Color The Crag Festival in Steele Alabama. Please note and respect that the people interviewed shared their opinions and stories based on their own experiences in the outdoors: https://tinyurl.com/y6v8s74c

Who knew that such toe-tappin’ tunes would come out of Iceland: https://tinyurl.com/un32e42

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should: https://tinyurl.com/y9h5uj6a

Linkdump #29

If you’re into such things, here’s a time lapse of dermestid beetles cleaning raccoon skulls: https://tinyurl.com/ycluajx4

If you’re into flowers, this one is rather amazeballs: https://tinyurl.com/y9o85oxq

A transparent anemone shrimp: https://tinyurl.com/yaseeyys

And a microCT scan of a transparent anemone shrimp: https://tinyurl.com/yc35cs6u

The Film Crew by Aimee La Joie: https://tinyurl.com/ydam98ao

If you love morbid and inappropriate gifs, you’ll love this feed: https://tinyurl.com/y93uvm6r

The above gif artist also made a creepy, animated story about a Polish undead monster: https://tinyurl.com/y7xmx52s

“Star jelly”: https://tinyurl.com/y8w7bacg

Death in Vegas – “Dirge”: https://tinyurl.com/y95eflfh

Icons at Risk is an international initiative to preserve the world’s most endangered modern houses of unique architectural importance: https://tinyurl.com/ybmgewzf

Using birds to explain why we make such atrocious romantic choices: https://tinyurl.com/y74m2l8x

Instagram influencer gets real: https://tinyurl.com/ycynw5pu

When a decomposing, century-old film becomes a haunting meditation on memory: https://tinyurl.com/ycnjfzkl

A fresh and modern kind of podcast about the Vikings: https://tinyurl.com/y8t7l9uo

A historical book of bread: https://tinyurl.com/y725by42

Giant prehistoric scorpions. FUN!: https://tinyurl.com/yahe7of9

The creepy, fleshy accessories you’ve been waiting for!: https://tinyurl.com/yarfuzfd

If I fits I sits: https://tinyurl.com/ybvzl4wb

The trippy sands of Rainbow Island, Iran: https://tinyurl.com/y94hohl4

“Ant Farm, a group of artists and architects based in San Francisco, produced experimental work between 1968 and 1978. The group combined architecture, performance, happenings, sculpture, installation, and graphic design, and documented its activities on camera in the early days of video art, embracing the latest technologies to disseminate its scathing criticism of American culture and mass media”: https://tinyurl.com/ydytjose

It’s like that Whack-A-Mole game but scarier: https://tinyurl.com/yaq2v9nr

A surprisingly loud worm: https://tinyurl.com/y5f8oyqa

Famous artists dissected: https://tinyurl.com/yctg7yt2

I laughed so hard I almost pooped: https://tinyurl.com/yararptw

Some impressive Before & After shots of the Ridgecrest quake: https://tinyurl.com/y79xsoza

Linkdump #28

That time in 2012 when a San Diego fireworks show went a wee bit sideways (FYI, the article opens with a bright, flashing graphic): https://tinyurl.com/zujg4bh

A street dance born amid poverty and violence offers a radical form of self-care: https://tinyurl.com/ycdkxfme

That time a German sub washed up on the beach at Hastings: https://tinyurl.com/y9ck7hkb

The wonder and symmetry of Desmids: https://tinyurl.com/yahpa8ag

A fantastic telling of the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz: https://tinyurl.com/yc84l478

The story of Eddie Aikau, a legendary man and surfer: https://tinyurl.com/v85o4ug

Impressive sugar sculpting: https://tinyurl.com/yclescnz

The Gaze of Victorine Meurent: https://tinyurl.com/ybkj85p8

Since 2000, a strange new type of song in white-throated sparrows has spread across the continent at stunning speed: https://tinyurl.com/yao75tky

For homemade cocktail fans: https://tinyurl.com/y9d2y8s3

An interesting paper (pdf link near the bottom of the page) that looks at patterns in rugs and Morton Feldman’s musical approach: https://tinyurl.com/y86gw9dc

Senko-hanabi are a Japanese firework, somewhat similar to a sparkler. But instead of being driven by burning powder, the senko-hanabi’s sparks come from bursting liquid droplets undergoing an exothermic reaction with air: https://tinyurl.com/y99a8ams

Together, Harvard University and XVIVO developed this 3D animation journey for Harvard’s undergraduate Molecular and Cellular Biology students about the microscopic world of mitochondria: https://tinyurl.com/ya89w22y

This guy makes some pretty impressive miniatures: https://tinyurl.com/yccdx5ca

How to make your own leather Cthulhu mask: https://tinyurl.com/yadlqnx3

An artist illustrates funny German words: https://tinyurl.com/ybzfd38s

NSFW – An erotic alphabet from 1880: https://tinyurl.com/w6tw6y4

Larry Callies comes from a long line of black cowboys living and working on the frontier: https://tinyurl.com/yc2rbzag

Amazing technology in 1975: https://tinyurl.com/y8guujk5

A gallery of some of the best Milky Way photos of the year: https://tinyurl.com/ycq5aahg

An online exhibition of the history of people making visible representations of embryos: https://tinyurl.com/ybpse927

Please enjoy this gallery of horrid taxidermy: https://tinyurl.com/ydhvbz8u

Linkdump #27

The motion of birds: https://tinyurl.com/yd9jne5d

“The Lively & Liveable Neighborhoods that are Illegal in North America“: https://tinyurl.com/y7skb7nw

California’s city of the dead: https://tinyurl.com/yd4mxl9r

The second life of a long-lost perfume: https://tinyurl.com/yb9hayqm

A superstar of Brazilian folklore: https://tinyurl.com/y8zgecws

A day in the life of an Aztec midwife: https://tinyurl.com/y9so9m4x

All about bison!: https://allaboutbison.com/

The Hollywood-Soviet mashup you’ve been waiting for: https://tinyurl.com/y9wxcn5f

“In 1925, Swiss schoolteacher Aimé Tschiffely set out to prove the resilience of Argentina’s criollo horses by riding two of them from Buenos Aires to New York City”: https://tinyurl.com/yb924vw7

A decade of sun: https://tinyurl.com/ybm4en5h

When AI finds faces in cars: https://tinyurl.com/yav8v7av

That time in 1973 when Salvador Dali directed a Playboy shoot: https://tinyurl.com/y9zdt2eb

Brilliant accessory for people with pierced septum: https://tinyurl.com/yba9nujq

BECAUSE ART, THAT’S WHY: https://tinyurl.com/ybvv4td9

Replace all science teachers with drag queens challenge: https://tinyurl.com/yco49cap

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as an Irish pub ballad: https://tinyurl.com/y9prbrm7

A Crimean physics teachers makes wonderfully illustrated notes: https://tinyurl.com/ycs67sjs

Bask in the spledor of the ceilings of Uzbekistan: https://tinyurl.com/y7lcrduz

This looks rad and I don’t even know how to use a slide rule: https://tinyurl.com/ybpuqseq

Linkdump #26

Iceland’s national soccer team really knows how to announce a new logo: https://tinyurl.com/yanu7xwq

Fantagraphics editor Gary Groth sits down to speak with Al Jaffee at 99: https://tinyurl.com/yavq5dkn

The beauty and emotion of cradle-grave gardening: https://tinyurl.com/y7lfmfe2

BLASPHEMY: https://tinyurl.com/yaxgea4a

Artist Elon Thomas makes fascinating things with fibers and fabrics: https://tinyurl.com/ydg5ot9x

When France extorted Haiti – the greatest heist in history: https://tinyurl.com/yar9kfrk

If Tim Burton’s Batman had been made in the 40s: https://tinyurl.com/yagfdgec

A neural network creates new lifeforms: https://tinyurl.com/y9o5o9wp

Microknitting: https://tinyurl.com/y822rwaf

When stoners and science collide: https://tinyurl.com/y3zfz6ra

Let’s learn about a poisonous palm: https://tinyurl.com/yd4nakpy

Artist crafts a perfect miniature of the CBGB’s bathroom: https://tinyurl.com/y8vnaerf

Colorized and stabilized footage of the workers constructing the Chrysler building: https://tinyurl.com/yd5rxh8q

Some sketchy goings on at Tehran’s Anthropology Museum: https://tinyurl.com/y9k4lwjn

If you love spiders then I have a Flickr stream for you!: https://tinyurl.com/yc2n4bdv

Feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Soothe your troubled mind with Zardoz Guided Meditation: https://tinyurl.com/ybfz7bt5

An often-forgotten but absolutely essential pollinator: https://tinyurl.com/ubbb5wa

Enjoy the new music video from Sparks, illustrated by Cyriak: https://tinyurl.com/ycm6rysx

A cool old map showing the visible range of Puerto Rico’s lighthouses: https://tinyurl.com/ya86lyyh

Virtually explore a villa in pre-eruption Pompeii: https://tinyurl.com/y8zfhe8g

Your Word of the Day: https://tinyurl.com/ya3hf2tk

And, in closing, a lively Ukrainian rendition of Enter Sandman: https://tinyurl.com/y8bd7ycc

Linkdump #25

SQUEEEEEEE: https://tinyurl.com/y836kj53

Only pagan in Fort Saskatchewan says city nearly fined her for religious artwork in backyard: https://tinyurl.com/yak8ju8y

What a solar eclipse looks like on Mars: https://tinyurl.com/yaoawwvl

A fantastic episode of Drunk History: https://tinyurl.com/y88k7zs7

“5 Underrated Places A Woman Can Cry In Peace”: https://tinyurl.com/y7rfcgc7

Cool animated infographic about cheetahs: https://tinyurl.com/y9dwcnjk

Chonker: https://tinyurl.com/ybdau96h

A creative street art project (There’s a strobe-like effect to the video, in case that’s a thing that bothers you): https://tinyurl.com/ycastd22

If you’re interested in learning about politics and elections in Singapore: https://tinyurl.com/y9e2y87n

How to create the Matrix-style bullet time effect on a budget: https://tinyurl.com/y9xgl33c

Working the night shift at the modern art museum (sound on): https://tinyurl.com/yb45hbb5

A thread for draft horse fans: https://tinyurl.com/y7dwkssw

An anthropologist explains how we discovered some of the oldest tattoos in the world: https://tinyurl.com/yarkou5c

Researchers find what may be the oldest photo of a Maori person: https://tinyurl.com/y7bh9fv6

Seriously interesting facts about the world of jellyfish: https://tinyurl.com/pl6pj4z

Homemade SPAM? Sign me up !! (No actually please don’t): https://tinyurl.com/ybvypjrd

The tragic tale of a lizard and a record-breaking poo: https://tinyurl.com/y8kltfx3

15 of the largest extinct crocodiles: https://tinyurl.com/y8kltfx3

Enjoy the sights and sounds of the very first U.S. Ren Faire: https://tinyurl.com/yb2yew4x

Chaos is always more fun when set to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor: https://tinyurl.com/ybyzhp9f

“Enter the Apprehension Engine, the most perfectly crafted instrument in the world for making utterly terrifying, horribly haunting and completely nightmarish sounds”: https://tinyurl.com/y7ryhm9d

Recreating a 16th century book reading machine: https://tinyurl.com/yd6zgcyu

Linkdump # 24

An interactive map of Yellowstone’s geology: https://tinyurl.com/yavn27ad

Exactly how I felt that one time when some new-age acquaintances invited me to one of their “Life changing” church services: https://tinyurl.com/yc9xjy2l

“Pakistan’s Sheedi community can trace its roots back to East African slaves brought to India by the Portuguese, hundreds of years before the partition of the subcontinent. Marginalized and overlooked for decades, the group has found its commanding, charismatic voice in Tanzeela Qambrani – in the halls of the Sindh provincial legislature”: https://tinyurl.com/yblljkgk

Why it’s impossible to drive between Central America and South America: https://tinyurl.com/y6ugz7jx

A lesson in how the visually impaired use tactile pavement: https://tinyurl.com/yblp4bxo

“Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science”: https://tinyurl.com/y6jbltpq

An interesting personal essay about Russian Old Believers in Oregon: https://tinyurl.com/ydx9lf33

That time when it rained for two million years: https://tinyurl.com/y9ollxvp

Researcher Peter Neff shares the story behind his viral “ice drop” video and drilling for ancient gases trapped in a glacier in Law Dome, Antarctica: https://tinyurl.com/ydbaushj

BABY WOMBAT TUMTUM: https://tinyurl.com/ya2gvtjl

Fun with physics!: https://tinyurl.com/ychkd7fc

I know Vice is generally crap, but the link in the second sentence of the article leads to a whole lot of interesting data about future flooding risk in the U.S.: https://tinyurl.com/ydcnxvd4

Explaining a classic Hollywood makeup effect: https://tinyurl.com/y9mkm995

Filmmaker Tony Hill has created some really interesting camera rigs in his time: https://tinyurl.com/yazgrbjr

A study about aphantasia: https://tinyurl.com/yc55drv3

The effects of hibernation on the world’s fattest bears: https://tinyurl.com/y8f2qvht

Take a deep dive into this 18th century well in rural England: https://tinyurl.com/y8ja58rj

“Hybrids, once treated as biological misfits, have been the secret saviors of many animal species in trouble. Reconciling that truth with conservation policies poses a challenge for science”: https://tinyurl.com/y7mgv4jt

The self-cleaning brain: https://tinyurl.com/y8xz7zyc

The work of the artist Dran: https://tinyurl.com/y75fjr3k

“For the first time, researchers have created the ‘branched flow’ phenomenon in visible light, previously only seen in other types of wave like sound”: https://tinyurl.com/y8wx8nqv

“The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (Hyakki Yagyō) is a thousand-plus-year-old Japanese folkloric tradition, in which a series of demons parades — or explodes — into the ordinary human world”: https://tinyurl.com/yas4x34f

A process video from one of my favorite sculptors: https://tinyurl.com/ya6tzwcl

Insect colors preserved in amber: https://tinyurl.com/ydfaptaq

An uplifting profile of the Japanese sculptor who has dedicated his life to completing Barcelona’s legendary La Sagrada Familia: https://tinyurl.com/ybjemst5

Helpful N. American salamander ID site: https://tinyurl.com/yamlfolf

A fun series about what really went into building castles: https://tinyurl.com/yd9kxces

For fans of fiber arts: https://tinyurl.com/ydh3j8pb