The sheer bizarre delight of Mitchell Grafton’s “Face Jugs”: https://tinyurl.com/yy5o55vt
A font that changes shape as you type: https://tinyurl.com/y6y5m2lb
Did you know that Scotland has an official Islamic tartan?: https://tinyurl.com/y5a3m2m4
“Pattern Radio: Whale Songs” uses AI to let you explore thousands of hours of whale songs, and the “Select Tour” button lets you dive even deeper: https://tinyurl.com/yydxt6pv
Taiwan’s first illustrated encyclopedia of marine debris: https://tinyurl.com/y63qrrdu
Maori tips for repelling biting insects: https://tinyurl.com/yyxeopv5
“Designed very much like a tool belt worn at the waist, the chatelaine held an array of both useful household appendages and fanciful items on a series of chains, reflecting a woman’s hobbies and activities of the day”: https://tinyurl.com/y5jnsop8
Animated Knots offers a wealth of gifs to help you learn to tie a dazzling variety of knots: https://tinyurl.com/yyrzcc6t
YInMn Blue, the brilliant pigment discovered in 2009 at an Oregon State University lab, is finally making its way to artists’ studios: https://tinyurl.com/y45ws2n6
A sweet and airy song from Salt Cathedral: https://tinyurl.com/yywm3752
A nice article about how easy it is for archaeological sites to become contaminated with modern objects and materials: https://tinyurl.com/y5uh6z9f
“For the opening episode of the latest season of Define Beauty—our flagship series exploring the boundaries and conceptions of beauty—directorial collective Youth Hymns, who have previously worked with Snoop Dog and Wolf Alice, present Facefixx: a poppy dystopian take on social media and hyperreality”: https://tinyurl.com/y4cxq3g7
Someone built a K’NEX full-sized pinball machine, and it’s pretty impressive: https://tinyurl.com/y458w6qj
A delightful short video showing the life cycle of a Puss moth: https://tinyurl.com/y2raux2t
The underground reservoir protecting Tokyo from floods is a pretty phenomenal feat of engineering: https://tinyurl.com/y5o62u7q
Using the latest colorization and animation technology, this video makes “Classic European beauties” of the past come to life. It’s kind of half awesome and half creepy, TBH: https://tinyurl.com/y24n7y5q
A compilation of clips from BBC Earth shows the magnificent beauty of different owls at different stages of life, beginning with birth: https://tinyurl.com/y3f3jm9t
Dr. Seuss characters become adorable trophies: https://tinyurl.com/y253fnc8
Sushi art by Takayo Kiyota (Slightly NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/yyt6uza6
Arquitectura libre is a long-term project on the self-built environment. It focuses primarily on the architecture of remittances; the fantastical houses being built by financing from Mexican immigrants in the US who send money home. Arquitectura libre explores the idea of a home more as symbol than as function: https://tinyurl.com/y2tqmwf6
Stanley Kubrick asked a young publicist to write a track for his movie,2001, but decided not to use it in the film. Now it’s been released after 52 years and we can all hear it: https://tinyurl.com/y5cqa6bu
Not all Neanderthals were ‘cavemen’: half were women. Here’s what archaeology can tell us about how they may have lived: https://tinyurl.com/y2994pe5
“Inhabit Media Inc. is the first Inuit-owned, independent publishing company in the Canadian Arctic. We aim to promote and preserve the stories, knowledge, and talent of the Arctic, while also supporting research in Inuit mythology and the traditional Inuit knowledge of Nunavummiut (residents of Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost territory)”: https://tinyurl.com/y5a3w3lq
That’s right, scientists have finally discovered the first fossilized dinosaur butthole: https://tinyurl.com/y6hj35xz
The delightful world of Fat Cat Art: https://tinyurl.com/y2qzjcfp
Björk as mushrooms: A thread: https://tinyurl.com/yxcpmzh6
The Tibetan Book of Proportions is an eighteenth century manual that gives precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the Buddha and Bodhisattva figures: https://tinyurl.com/yxsyx7q6
Helvetic Kitchen offers a wealth of Swiss recipes for any occasion. I hope you like carbs!: https://tinyurl.com/create.php
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