So what would have happened if Neo had chosen the blue pill?: https://tinyurl.com/y3my7blf
A Twitter thread about what we’ve learned from an Ice Age puppy: https://tinyurl.com/yxf4u7yn
A brief but stunning drone’s-eye view of the world’s largest cemetery: https://tinyurl.com/y2h6opgm
Some of the offerings to be found in 19th century soda fountains: https://tinyurl.com/y3zulmjv
A beautifully grungy automata with a lovely theme song: https://tinyurl.com/y4onvmdr
An interesting video about how editors cut video to match the beat of music: https://tinyurl.com/yyoe5c7h
Qian Haifeng has spent years documenting the decline of China’s “green trains” — the Mao-era rail network that remains a vital lifeline for millions of blue-collar workers: https://tinyurl.com/y28q3r95
The Castles of Wales web site, launched in November of 1995, provides visitors with information on over 400 different Welsh castles, accompanied by high quality photographs, as well as a wide range of topics related to Welsh castles and Welsh medieval history: https://tinyurl.com/nbd3fc
“Wikitongues is a global volunteer movement expanding access to language revitalization. We help speakers document and promote their languages online, safeguarding them for the next generation”: https://tinyurl.com/yyfvp27v
A Youtube channel dedicated to street foods (and drinks) of Pakistan: https://tinyurl.com/y4e9q2g9
Maria Dahvana Headley is an American novelist, memoirist, editor, and playwright. Here she introduces her new translation of Beowulf: https://tinyurl.com/y2madgqn
Long before asbestos was recognized as a health hazard, it was a near-mythical wonder material, a gift fit for kings and emperors: https://tinyurl.com/y24ha6mj
Artist Katrina Herrndorf explains that “what started out as a simple study in ceramic sculpture class of the form of my bra drying on a doorknob has evolved….” For her exploration of the bra, she made examples from unusual materials, such as baseball gloves, and inspired by usually non-mammary themes, such as Canada Day: https://tinyurl.com/yxhq7zdv
You can now check the progress of NASA’s new Mars Rover, Perseverance as it travels to Mars. NASA has launched a free online tool that lets anyone monitor Perseverance’s journey in real time. You can also see the nearest celestial body to the spacecraft at any given moment! The Mars 2020 rover will arrive in February 2021, so people can monitor its journey for a few more months: https://tinyurl.com/yxnc45nd
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? Apparently it involves naked Greeks and Jesus and Vikings?: https://tinyurl.com/yytlbrym
Holdfast is a Napoleonic-era roleplaying shooter game with “enjoyably useless” weapons and a “wonderfully silly but vivid class system” that rewards players for standing in line, listening to nearby musicians, and generally following orders from officers. Thanks to a viral video by an excited Scottish lad, it’s exploded in popularity (NSFW for enthusiastic Scottish cussing): https://tinyurl.com/yy39agds
Well this is insteresting: “I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person – an American teenager who can’t speak Scots”: https://tinyurl.com/y2g3hedf
A short video featuring the aerial smoke curtains used to hide ships in WWII: https://tinyurl.com/y335hkkc
This is adorable (sound on): https://tinyurl.com/yymp4xvt
If such things interest you, here’s a Wiki list of Gilded Age mansions in the U.S.: https://tinyurl.com/wkqqtjm
Fun with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 glitches: https://tinyurl.com/y5qsq4sr
Zone out on a realtime global lightning strike map: https://tinyurl.com/y57ab2mn
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