Linkdump #54

An artist who specializes in delightfully ugly portraits: https://tinyurl.com/y6q6b4m5

Dingoes have gotten bigger over the last 80 years, and pesticides might be to blame: https://tinyurl.com/y2e58h9p

The frog is like a sculpture of my true soul: https://tinyurl.com/y44doeot

Some badass 15th -17th Century Mongolian boots: https://tinyurl.com/y53bmrcx

An interesting animated look at the security features on a U.S. $100 bill: https://tinyurl.com/y4u526t4

The wonderful and bizarre paintings of Jack Yerka: https://tinyurl.com/y4hvy49e

It’s wise to do a bit of research before using a foreign word as your business/product name: https://tinyurl.com/y65hdfny

They can pry my microwaved tea from my cold, dead, barbarian hands: https://tinyurl.com/y2lhf7d5

The heliosphere is a sort of bubble of solar wind that protects our solar system from interstellar radiation. Until recently, it was thought that the heliosphere was probably shaped like the outline of a comet: https://tinyurl.com/y3q6ygee

That time when a Pepsi marketing stunt led to disaster in the Philippines: https://tinyurl.com/y66g7tc4

One of the less-famous bog mummies was a young boy found in Lower Saxony: https://tinyurl.com/y2rm7vtq

One of the many wonders of life in the north: Mosquito tornadoes: https://tinyurl.com/y5lselh6

Fluorescence is typically associated with gases or liquids, but a team of chemists has conjured a new formula that gives solid materials that characteristic fluorescent glow: https://tinyurl.com/y3pskuoe

Possibly the creepiest robot dog yet invented: https://tinyurl.com/y5yuk3xl

Please, uh, enjoy this rousing performance of “I Ain’t Gonna Pee Pee My Bed Tonight”. No I am not kidding: https://tinyurl.com/ltqjhxm

Which demographic tends to suffer the highest number of fireworks injuries? The answer will (totally not) shock you!: https://tinyurl.com/yxpbzklh

For those who are into gross medical stuff: Actinomycosis is a potentially devastating bacterial infection that can cause severe tissue and bone damage, as you can see in this boar skull from the Hunterian Museum collection: https://tinyurl.com/yyqvylbl

Nicolas Bras loves creating new homemade musical instruments, and some of them are pretty darned cool: https://tinyurl.com/yx9ps3hu

Using an ensemble of neural networks, YouTuber Denis Shiryaev upscaled the oldest recorded video: Louis Le Prince’s “Roundhay Garden Scene”, which was shot in October of 1888: https://tinyurl.com/yxfq7vmb

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