Linkdump #73

A peek at the history of cooking food without fire: https://tinyurl.com/y4atpdup

A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago: https://tinyurl.com/y5mqmyaz

If you’ve never seen the 17th Century embroidery that once adorned the wealthiest member of European society, prepare to be impressed: https://tinyurl.com/y38l5v7t

For pathology fans: Besnoitia are a family of cyst-forming parasites that are known to specialize in infecting specific species of animals. One type of Besnoitia specifically targets North American opossums, forming cysts in both soft tissues and bone. Here’s a photo of an opossum skull that was infected with Besnoitia (it’s not gory): https://tinyurl.com/y45shuz2

I stumbled upon this short animation the other day, and it reminds me of the classic animated movie version of Watershed Down. It has that same kind of frantic, stress-inducing drama, along with scenes of rather horrifying, frenetic, and almost-psychedelic motion that triggers responses in your lizard brain. If you scroll down to the comments, the top comments gives a detailed explanation of what was actually happening. C/W – contains some strobe-like flashing during a couple of scenes: https://tinyurl.com/y5zmgjrt

Another short. This time it’s an engaging sci-fi stop motion film that took ten years to make (I can believe it), and features one of my favorite things in the world: Bones!: https://tinyurl.com/y6jay9j8

“The Mechanical Universe,” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course: https://tinyurl.com/h4hja5v

If you haven’t heard of the Fashion Grannies, they definitely know how to give people the old dazzle dazzle: https://tinyurl.com/y4pdwwo6

The Leningrad Cowboys perform Sweet Home Alabama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GRpA5H3CI

Cronobook is a world map of geolocated pictures that you can filter by the time you want to see. The pictures are accompanied by a date and a description added by the user who uploaded them: https://tinyurl.com/y4dbxb8p

A BBC podcast (radio?) episode about Kate Molleson traveling to Jerusalem to meet a legend of Ethiopian music, the piano-playing nun, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. Born in 1923 to a noble Ethiopian family, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was celebrated as a young musician in Addis Ababa – even performing for the Emperor Haile Selassie. But when she was mysteriously refused permission to take up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London, her life changed forever, and she abandoned music: https://tinyurl.com/y4t4mf9l

Did you know that spider tune their webs?: hhttps://tinyurl.com/yxam2rsf

23 beautifully illustrated letters by artists like Van Gogh, Warhol, Kahlo, and more: https://tinyurl.com/y65wctmu

Farmer N’Da Alphonse grows cocoa and has never seen the finished product. “To be honest I do not know what they make of my beans, ” says farmer N’Da Alphonse. “I’ve heard they’re used as flavoring in cooking, but I’ve never seen it. I do not even know if it’s true”: https://tinyurl.com/kcdwngm

Butoh Dance is a journey through the character and mind of Conan Amok, a contemporary Butoh dancer who takes his traditional Japanese performance art and philosophy onto the neon and gritty streets of Shibuya, Tokyo (Japanese with English subtitles): https://tinyurl.com/yy8oohak

A database that allows you to search through over 16 million historical (beginning in 1900) newspaper pages to find specific images. Just choose the time period, then enter one or more keywords: https://tinyurl.com/y5ar73c8

The complex relationships between trees and diseases, and our never-ending fight to keep disaster at bay: https://tinyurl.com/y4p5r335

The whirlwind life of Tanqueray, one of the honorable elders of the NYC stripping scene: https://tinyurl.com/y6t4eax9

The fascinating phenomenon that is slime mold: https://tinyurl.com/y5zkgvc2

Three of the concept sketches the late, great Ron Cobb made for Star Wars: https://tinyurl.com/y2haxdge

I already knew about the cultural beliefs in witchcraft in Ghana, but I hadn’t heard of the Witch Camps before. This is heartbreaking: https://tinyurl.com/y696g98z

People seem to cling to the idea that you can tell that a person is a potential murderer, child abuser, etc simply by looking at them, but time and time again science has shown us to be wrong: https://tinyurl.com/yypsocew

Georgetown University has an ongoing project that address a “long-term and ongoing process to more deeply understand and respond to the University’s role in the injustice of slavery and the legacies of enslavement and segregation in our nation” Make sure to check out the tabs at the top to see the various aspects and focuses of the project: https://tinyurl.com/y2lyqblm

Now NASA lets you listen to the universe and hear the Pillars of Creation sing: https://tinyurl.com/y4ne8ymx

A photo shoot where Russian queer artists use a symbol of traditional Russian culture as a backdrop to contrast old and new in colorful ways: https://tinyurl.com/y2jnjem5

You’re probably aware that Japan has about a bazillion different flavors of Kit Kats, but who actually thinks up those flavors?: https://tinyurl.com/yxgmufz3

The dance of mushroom spores in a spotlight: https://tinyurl.com/y6ahn682

Step inside a Space Museum hidden in a tiny Ukrainian church: https://tinyurl.com/y4byjglh

Some of the tiniest little peacock spiders you ever will see. Squeeeeeeee: https://tinyurl.com/y4rvtfyt

“I don’t usually do threads but today I wanna tell y’all why these 20 seconds of footage of a kid in a blue and red jacket stage diving at a Bad Brains concert at CBGB’s in NYC in 1982 are important. Then I wanna tell y’all this kid’s story”: https://tinyurl.com/y5oznydk

Over in the Scotland’s Rock Art project group, some illustrations showing the variety of designs found in ancient carvings: https://tinyurl.com/y694nugg

An article about reviving ancient traditions to tackle modern problems: https://tinyurl.com/y5yas2xq

I had no idea that South Park did a DUNE parody. Yes, it is precisely as crude, tasteless, and juvenile as you would expect from South Park: https://tinyurl.com/y27kgj62

The Pompeii Lakshmi (NSFW) is a figurine found in the buried city of Pompeii. Not only is it a lovely piece of craftsmanship, it also helps fill in our ever-growing knowledge about the extensive trade networks and relationships in the ancient world: https://tinyurl.com/y6kw32tc

The Qiyi City Forest Garden residential complex in Chengdu, China, was supposed to be a green paradise for its residents, but two years on, the vertical forest concept hasn’t quite worked out as planned: https://tinyurl.com/y6dtmylc

An in-depth look at Bong Joon-ho’s storyboards for “Parasite”: https://tinyurl.com/y5z5ryjt

The Codex Zouche-Nuttall is a pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, one of six known to survive. The codex is named for two women: Baroness Zouche, its donor and Zelia Nuttall, who first published it in 1902: https://tinyurl.com/y2fcq5jp

Linkdump #72

A very interesting and luxurious hotel that I absolutely cannot afford to stay at: https://theroxburyexperience.com/tower-cottages/#menu-item-5

A cool little thread about teeth: https://twitter.com/Yara_Haridy/status/1085197272797925377?s=20

Musician Douglas Yeo performed two beautiful classical pieces on an unusual wind instrument called The Serpent. As its name suggests, The Serpent is bent in a wiggling snake-like shape that helps to create a distinct tone. While this instrument looks like one of Leonard Solomon’s fantastical machines, it was actually invented in Italy during the 16th century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWez9hhitXQ&feature=emb_title

The saga of Minnesota’s famous and much-loved Root Beer Lady: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dorothy-molter-root-beer-lady?fbclid=IwAR20GgBoe5zt9JdITvfu8fWQq8UungRXJAyHIe0ofrNkByKQ8U2WdvNh108

The sophisticated chemical warfare of plants: http://nautil.us/issue/90/something-green/when-plants-go-to-war-rp

If you’re a fan of Southern Gothic: https://twitter.com/TheDreamRot

A butterfly nebula: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200913.html

If you’re claustrophobic, I highly recommend NOT watching this video of spelunkers squeezing themselves through terrifyingly tight passages. Guess I know what I’ll be having nightmares about tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=qdwOsSPvq9g&feature=emb_title

Mutoscopes, a form of mechanical flip book, were one of the late 19th-early 20th century inventions that let people enjoy “moving pictures” for just a few pennies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lfAIEtngI

12 real life escape pods: http://www.oobject.com/category/12-real-escape-pods/

For some strange reason this does not make me feel an urge to buy gum: https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2019/11/20/dispenser-of-gum-and-nightmares/

From infographics to digital renders, today’s scientists have ready access to a wide array of techniques to help visually communicate their research. It wasn’t always so: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/more-lively-counterfaits

Introducing “Texas German”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_dH403pqRU&feature=emb_title

I’m kind of in love with this sculptor’s style: https://www.instagram.com/edgesculpture/?hl=en

Link TV’s World Music features have long been a source of joy and discovery for me: https://www.linktv.org/shows/border-blaster/episodes/liberation

A striking and powerful sculpture garden at the Burke Museum, featuring casts of Chinookan paddles: https://www.facebook.com/burkemuseum/posts/10158766894628064

I’ve always had a soft spot for silverfish, since they were my high school mascot (no, really): https://theconversation.com/hidden-housemates-book-loving-silverfish-56984

Why an underground house may not be as cool as you’d hoped: https://dengarden.com/misc/The-Pitfalls-of-an-Underground-House

A delightful shop that offers collectible ghosts: https://hween.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/ghosted/

A modern take on a classic painting style: http://www.benashtonart.com/empire-1/r1efx6wfq6gqk18qk2dl4c72hjd0in

A little peek at the kind of promotional films America used to use to convince rural populations that getting on the electrical grid was a way to improve their lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC-ckRJncrI

How do you warn people thousands of years in the future about dangers we’re leaving for them?: https://aiweirdness.com/post/629516384194461697/a-10000-year-warning

Image source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306278362_Altering_Identities_Body_Modification_and_the_pre-Columbian_Maya

Linkdump #71

A cool info page about common egg issues chicken owners might encounter: https://tinyurl.com/y5hthphq

How ice cores can help us understand the past: https://tinyurl.com/y3v5f495

Disney princesses in therapy: https://tinyurl.com/y4ehmwpm

You may know about Centralia, Pennsylvania, and its much-loved highway of graffiti, but you may not have heard that the new landowner has decided the highway needs to go: https://tinyurl.com/y4wwxjxh

If you’re into makeup and costume artistry, this artist is amaaaaaaazing: https://tinyurl.com/yy7x5j26

Take a tour of a real Hollywood witch’s house: https://tinyurl.com/y5abl3tp

Today in the McMansion Hell Yearbook, we’re taking a look back at 1976: https://tinyurl.com/y4fn58yg

Take a closeup, 360 degree peek at an Egyptian sarcophagus: https://tinyurl.com/yyurlzzl

The one-stop shop for all your monster swag needs: https://tinyurl.com/yxwowt3g

An artist paints the world’s largest canvas to help support the world’s children in need: https://tinyurl.com/y3mgdwms

Delve into the world of Victorian women’ dress codes: https://tinyurl.com/yygc6bh9

Tracing the evolution of music has long been a challenge for archaeologists, but we’ve still made some important discoveries: https://tinyurl.com/yxtsgl37

We hear about how organized crime in the U.S. was all about booze, drugs, prostitution, etc, but we don’t often hear about their far-reaching grip on food markets: https://tinyurl.com/yxeu9nme

A fantastic online Smithsonian gallery of objects that tell the stories of America’s past: https://tinyurl.com/y5p2yusd

Well now I want a pet cactopus: https://tinyurl.com/y5dqn3cm

Take a tour of the Space Age Museum: https://tinyurl.com/y2jwsu2n

Looking for a cheap house in Ireland? You’re in luck!!: https://tinyurl.com/y59oaxm2

A delightful gallery of colorful birds made from bits of nature: https://tinyurl.com/y6oypm7j

Intangible Cultural Heritage is a UNESCO program initiated in 2001 to recognize and protect various cultures and practices that, unlike items on the UNESCO World Heritage List, cannot be touched. One cool part of the website is this interactive data visualization. Double-click on a topic to expand it: https://tinyurl.com/y5lfjywb

Apparently some vintage camera lenses are radioactive. Yay?: https://tinyurl.com/y2ygpw2q

A little video about canal locks and how they work: https://tinyurl.com/y6dspvv2

Fun with glow stick goo: https://tinyurl.com/yy9hnu6z

Linkdump #70

Delightful macro photos of various insects: https://tinyurl.com/ybvzqdhc

Learn some fun facts about Britain’s most dangerous pathway: https://tinyurl.com/yblgmnv3

Many have become familiar with Mongolian throat singing, but fewer people are aware of the traditional woman’s throat singing of the Inuit: https://tinyurl.com/y3vt9shj

“Music lovers will be astonished at the influence The Wrecking Crew wielded over rock and pop music in the 1960s and early 1970s. These unsung instrumentalists were the de-facto backing band on hit records by The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny & Cher, Elvis, The Monkees and many more”: https://tinyurl.com/vdo2xbd

Dr. Sarah Taber, Crop scientist, ex-farmworker, and industrial safety pro, has some things to say about a recent NYT article. As one commenter put it “Here’s how to undo a century of progress on labor rights”: https://tinyurl.com/y4jvotxt

Some gorgeous images from the 2020 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition: https://tinyurl.com/y3p7et6s

“Fifty years after the battle of Gettysburg, in the greatest gathering of conqueror and conquered, veterans sought a chance to heal while politicians preached patriotic amnesia”: https://tinyurl.com/yymvg6az

The capital of Indonesia is sinking into the sea: https://tinyurl.com/hxr3qe4

A lovely and artistic time-lapse of various molds growing. Specifically, types of molds used in fermenting food: https://tinyurl.com/y6x84q3p

Marine iguana teeth are fascinating: https://tinyurl.com/y38q497f

The teeth of the flying lemur are even more fascinating: https://tinyurl.com/yych96qy

If you like biology, here’s a video about Ontogeny (the course of development an organism takes) and Neoteny (when an organism retains the features of a juvenile as it grows into adulthood): https://tinyurl.com/h5oprqr

Unsolicited Dik-Dik pics: https://tinyurl.com/y6tgmbos

That’s a hell of a lot of goldfish right there: https://tinyurl.com/y6qhw5zx

What if Daft Punk covered Radiohead: https://tinyurl.com/y5bs4xm2

The variety of patterns and colors found on Vermont brook trout: https://tinyurl.com/y5z9apqb

Andrew Szydlo is a chemist and secondary school teacher at Highgate School, and here he offers a comprehensive lecture on the chemistry of coal (actually more interesting than I expected): https://tinyurl.com/y7gho2kb

Mapping Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S.: https://tinyurl.com/yy966h8p

The Bartlett School of Architecture is offering an online Summer Show for 2020. Take a look around the interactive gallery: https://tinyurl.com/y6647d6u

In 1901, German anthropologist Berthold Laufer used two wax cylinder recorders simultaneously to record Shanghai musicians, unintentionally creating the earliest-known stereo recordings: https://tinyurl.com/y5x3rwbq

If you like zombie movies, this 9+ minute short has a very unexpected ending: https://tinyurl.com/y4uatesl

For almost 300 years a buried treasure lay undisturbed below one of London’s busiest streets. Discovered by workmen in 1912, the Cheapside Hoard is the greatest single collection of Elizabethan and Stuart jewelery in the world: https://tinyurl.com/yxegrfhf

After a 10-year renovation, an amazing sailing ship automata, once owned by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, is on display: https://tinyurl.com/y5fkq4nb

Image source: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/49/20646

Linkdump #69

Lose yourself in The Brain Radioshow, a weird and wonderful French online show that offers a dazzling range of odd and entrancing music that you’ve likely never heard before: https://tinyurl.com/y3yukozg

A brief look at the evolution of kinetic sculptures: https://tinyurl.com/y5cwz5jl

An unofficial ranking of the best most average songs in British music history: https://tinyurl.com/y3oaqmwr

You may have heard OF the legendary singing dogs of New Guinea (turns out they’re not extinct after all!): https://tinyurl.com/y24pu9td, but have you ever HEARD the legendary singing dogs?:
https://tinyurl.com/y2pm32uh

Minesweeper Guy Momper and his team of de-miners extract unexploded munitions from the First and Second World War. Their mission is estimated to take 200 years to complete: https://tinyurl.com/y6xu3ala

Cool little look behind the scenes of a music video: https://tinyurl.com/y2eqjuto

Zoom Earth (nothing to do with everyone’s favorite teleconferencing tool) shows live weather satellite images updated in near real-time in a zoomable map. Image layers include storms and wildfires: https://tinyurl.com/z4dd8vg

The luminous blending of photography and painting by artist Tawny Chatmon: https://tinyurl.com/yymzn8sc

For history fans, a playlist of videos detailing the whens, hows, and whys involved in the collapses of various noted civilizations/cultures: https://tinyurl.com/y43jpfht

A whole spectrum of links related to Multiple Personality Disorder, both in the past and the present, and how culture impacts the ways in which we detect, diagnose, and perceive such conditions: https://tinyurl.com/y6xuwm5h

The National Museum of Health and Medicine has a Flickr stream, so if you’re interested in historical photos related to medicine and injuries (some are pretty awful war wounds) then this is the place for you: https://tinyurl.com/y2hzmf5y

Some people assume that Hadrosaurs were large, slow, passive herbivores with very few ways to defend themselves. One artist disagrees: https://tinyurl.com/y5nckfzj

Neither a plane nor a boat, the Ekranoplan once launched nuclear-tipped missiles. Now, after a towing gone wrong, it’s stranded off a beach: https://tinyurl.com/y6poctpn

If you enjoy drooling over houses you probably can’t afford, here’s a lovely little place: https://tinyurl.com/y6rd43sv

I would absolutely try this if I had a cat: https://tinyurl.com/yxcsosyj

In 2010, as the Colombian government was preparing to rescue 16 soldiers held by armed FARC guerrillas, it looked in vain for a way to alert the soldiers without tipping off their captors. Finally Colonel Jose Espejo arranged to have local radio stations broadcast a pop song that contained a message in Morse code, which the soldiers had learned in basic training but that the guerrillas likely wouldn’t recognize: https://tinyurl.com/yyclwuqm

A rather charming rendition of The Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind” played on slide guitar: https://tinyurl.com/y479bfgz

Turkish artist Garip Ay demonstrates the delicate art and craft of painting on water: https://tinyurl.com/y6kcfedx

London-based designer Freyja Sewell has created eight decorative face masks, made from commonplace objects including felt, yoghurt pots and pool table triangles, in honor of coronavirus key workers: https://tinyurl.com/y5mwj32t

Drawings of Hopi Kachinas from 1903: https://tinyurl.com/y2lcfyq3

The Resistance Will Not Be Televised, updated for modern times: https://tinyurl.com/y28nmc49

Missing being at the office during the seemingly endless lockdown? Well The Sound of Colleagues has some sounds to soothe your soul: https://tinyurl.com/yd544g8e

Linkdump #68

An oddly soothing video of flamingos feeding: https://tinyurl.com/y2y6suol

Immerse yourself in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Includes both sound and text descriptions/info: https://tinyurl.com/y2899vwl

Dendrosenecio kilimanjari, also known as the Giant groundsel, is a wonderfully bizarre plant that peppers the slops of Mt. Kilamunjaro. Oddly enough, these plants come from the same family as Asters, though admittedly it’s a pretty large family: https://tinyurl.com/yye5glnw

The real-life origin story behind The Count of Monte Cristo: https://tinyurl.com/yxeg78fk

Giuseppe Spagnuolo is the only person living in Roscigno Vecchio, an abandoned town in the province of Salerno: https://tinyurl.com/y4cmv6s9

If you’re a fan of miniatures: https://tinyurl.com/y554ufj2

Scottish soldiers returning from the Great War were told they were coming back to a land fit for heroes – but the reality was very different. They found themselves caught up in a bitter Clydeside battle for full-blooded socialism which ended up with injury, imprisonment and tanks on the street of Glasgow: https://tinyurl.com/y2kb64s9

If you love colorful spiders, you’ll love the Chrysilla volupe: https://tinyurl.com/y44crw4t

The weird physics of upside down buoyancy: https://tinyurl.com/yy9gllln

The story of Dolly Jones, the first recorded female jazz trumpeter: https://tinyurl.com/yysj6hx9

Studying the acoustics of Stonehenge: https://tinyurl.com/y6yn5wtg

If you love cephalopods and sci-fi, this sculpture is for you!: https://tinyurl.com/yyno58pq

The pen & ink art of ilokunst is graphic, expressive, and seems ripped straight from a nightmare with overtones of body horror: https://tinyurl.com/y44tlbsf

If you are not a fan of spiky, alien-looking insects, you’ll probably want to skip this photo of Discocyrtus testudineus: https://tinyurl.com/y6e7wcjm

Enjoy a short video about the only known extinct order of marine mammals, Desmostylians: https://tinyurl.com/y6lfng3s

NO TIME TO EXPLAIN, JUST GET IN THE BABY CARRIER: https://tinyurl.com/y2mh8grk

Slip into the zone with the help of three full hours of ambient Mars sounds: https://tinyurl.com/y5yhzdqw

Artist Laura Matthews crafts delightful puppets that have an impressive amount of personality: https://tinyurl.com/y5ndyqln

The rich and beautiful murals of Inti Castro (scroll down for pics): https://tinyurl.com/y28tl27b

Another creepy-crawly for you bug lovers out there – the delightful Grey Whale Louse: https://tinyurl.com/y6e4x2ly

Introducing Conodonts, an extinct group of tiny little creatures with the most fascinating mouth parts (you can find lots more pics and info if you google “conodont apparatus”): https://tinyurl.com/y4sy4ng4

Using bubbles to study the physics of bird flight: https://tinyurl.com/y56gzwx3

Reconstructing the face and final days of one of Napoleon’s soldiers: https://tinyurl.com/y2vz77xf

Linkdump #67

How one man makes manna flow from trees: https://tinyurl.com/y4duoyog

A darned impressive 3D printed mask: https://tinyurl.com/yxw9hrrw

Crimes are a reflection of the period and society in which they occur. What happened, the objects and people involved, the location, how it was recorded – or even if it was recorded – all tell us something about the values, attitudes, and power structures of the day: https://tinyurl.com/y33u8gos

The tale of one of the largest insurance fraud schemes in the history of Texas: https://tinyurl.com/yy2ltram

A visit with Senegal’s Queen of Couture: https://tinyurl.com/y3hvk8cl

The Cockettes: San Fran’s legendary sex anarchists (NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/y5yj2rus

Comics have, without a doubt, sought to include narratives about Indigenous people, but very rarely have they been written by Indigenous people. As the digital world has flattened barriers to entry in all fields, especially comics, Indigenous artists across the United States and Canada have been able to present authentic work that expresses their communities free of appropriation: https://tinyurl.com/y4bs9ov5

A Viking-era leftie?: https://tinyurl.com/y36x7dc7

Take a virtual tour of the Frida Kahlo Museum: https://tinyurl.com/y2oe7fqo

The smallest active-duty vessel of the United States Navy: https://tinyurl.com/y24uhpcm

‘Written on the Walls of Paris’ showcases 48 hours inside Parisian the squats ‘DSXL’ and ‘Normandie’ – during which they throw a ‘wild, undeclared street carnival”: https://tinyurl.com/y2x3cny7

For Frank Jones (1900-1969) — a Black self-taught artist who spent his life in Texas, where he died while serving time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, north of Houston (home of the Lone Star State’s execution chamber) — making art might have served as a form of spirit-lifting escape from the monotony and tension of his long years in prison: https://tinyurl.com/y2p5wfej

An interactive wine atlas of the world: https://tinyurl.com/y5eg8nvf

In the 19th century, the rest cure tested women’s sanity. Today, it challenges cherished myths about work and productivity: https://tinyurl.com/y583co4o

A trippy and somewhat inexplicable animated music video from the French band P’TIT BELLIVEAU (Maybe NSFW?): https://tinyurl.com/y4mm24tt

Did you know that sea otters have pockets?: https://tinyurl.com/yxfzc2fz

Centuries-old cathedrals, churches, cloisters, and synagogues are a bit overlooked in this high-tech, minimalist age. But German photographer Markus Brunetti has taken a somewhat techie approach to capturing detailed images of such historic monuments, the subject of his new show, “Markus Brunetti: FACADES–Grand Tour”: https://tinyurl.com/y9qt9cvd

To save this palm-filled paradise, biologists must kill the trees: https://tinyurl.com/yyqvcoqo

A simple interactive map that shows you how much space in any city or town is dedicated to parking. Interesting to compare American and European cities: https://tinyurl.com/y3qkkxay

Browse some vintage IKEA catalogs (they’re clickable even though it doesn’t look like it at first): https://tinyurl.com/y22r49aq

A Twitter thread about “Neo-Andean” architecture: https://tinyurl.com/y3erzk7n

Monster pop-up greeting cards. I WANT: https://tinyurl.com/y3xdsovd

Monkeys buried like ‘sleeping babies’ were imported to ancient Egypt from India as pets: https://tinyurl.com/yy53s362

A look at the conservation of the world’s favorite party guy: https://tinyurl.com/rh2jb28

The process of making aluminum: https://tinyurl.com/yxkaoqyv

If the Earth was 100 pixels wide: https://tinyurl.com/cyusq9d