A drone’s-eye view of the damage in Beirut: https://tinyurl.com/yxpvqvwv
A fun online kaleidoscope for those times when you’re super bored but too high to actually get up and find something to do: https://tinyurl.com/y3azfsmg
What the planets would look like from their closest moon: https://tinyurl.com/yyj92usn
Now this is the kind of quality content I expect from the internet (sound on): https://tinyurl.com/y5saerl7
This May marks 500 years since the Toxcatl massacre, in which Indigenous people were killed during a festival that took place in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (today’s Mexico City). Two competing histories of this event exist. In the Spanish telling, the conquistadors acted in self-defense, yet a very different narrative emerges in the Indigenous version: https://tinyurl.com/yy7ytmnt
New insights into where syphilis (and related diseases) may have originated: https://tinyurl.com/y4ca632b
The art of recycling — re-using waste materials to reduce consumption of fresh raw materials — may seem alien in a medieval context. Yet when it comes to writing, past peoples were often much more sparing than many of us today: https://tinyurl.com/yxw7nlsy
A wonderful gallery of high-definition NASA videos: https://tinyurl.com/z2rq677
Progress photos of an amazing weaving by Haida artist Evelyn Vanderhoop: https://tinyurl.com/yy2u9lqn
A gallery of album covers by the late, great illustrator Milton Glaser: https://tinyurl.com/y4qhawbc
The cheeky knitting of Cassie Arnold (Mildly NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/y6qpydw9
Apparently foam furniture makes me irrationally angry: https://tinyurl.com/y2de7xeu
So fierce! So deadly! (Sound on): https://tinyurl.com/y4wkuju9
How rockets work, circa 1958: https://tinyurl.com/y6lutbkr
Shark brain vs. dolphin brain: https://tinyurl.com/y4fh8pml
This enigmatic short film presents fifty Egyptian funerary portraits from the region of Fayum. Painted during Roman rule between 100 and 300 A.D., these striking, psychological works were executed in encaustic while their subjects were alive and later used to cover their faces after mummification: https://tinyurl.com/y6zxqb6d
A Twitter thread that lets you take a tour of cities of the past: https://tinyurl.com/y69xnfk7
‘Absence of Evidence’ is a collaborative photographic project between artists Henry/Bragg and a group of former street sex workers in Hull honoring 14 of their fellow workers who have died: https://tinyurl.com/yxc9egtw
“There was a girl who met up with a wolf, back in Distant Time, when wolves were human. The wolf wanted her for his wife, even though he had two wives already. When he took her home, his two wives smelled her and knew she was human. After a while she had a child – a boy – and the wolf decided to kill his other two wives”: https://tinyurl.com/yxke7mb6
This film clip shows US Army disposing of drums of metallic sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947. The barrels were rolled off a cliff onto the frozen surface of the lake where they were machine-gunned to expose the sodium: https://tinyurl.com/yasn3vtf
Tech nerds finally invent the robot chameleon tongue that absolutely no one asked for: https://tinyurl.com/y34y5wfk
Behold the rusty magnificence: https://tinyurl.com/yyryv6ex
Winner of the Jury Prize in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival’s Short Films competition, Zea is an impressive and exhilarating piece of macro filmmaking. In a montage, close-ups capture a mysterious yellow subject as it heats and bubbles. But what is it?: https://tinyurl.com/yxet6q7u
(Image source: https://tinyurl.com/y3eln4b5)
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