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

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