Artist Ali Gulec has a lovely gallery of freaky, funky, awesome skulls and skeletons: https://tinyurl.com/4nn37y36
Witness the birth of Kermit the Frog in Jim Henson’s live TV show, “Sam and Friends” (1955)“: https://tinyurl.com/2tyyammj
How HP Lovecraft pronounced “Cthulhu”: https://tinyurl.com/synxfyene
Bhangra fan Gurdeep Pandher of Yukon sends all of us a snowy dance of joy, hope and positivity: https://tinyurl.com/24ps7yxs
A delightful Twitter thread about the history of sewage management in London: https://tinyurl.com/ypsrdutd
The city of Baltimore places salt boxes around the town during winter, so that residents can sprinkle salt and keep walkways and driveways free of ice. Here’s a google map of all the salt boxes, many of which have been decorated by locals. Just click on an “Art Box” icon to see a photo of that box: https://tinyurl.com/rtj8f3uy
The US government, in setting standards for food quality based on appearance, also shaped our perception of what is acceptable to eat. This does not always line up with reality. But having set the standards, the government then had to deal with food producers who took shortcuts to make food appear better to the consumer. In some cases, the standards were not so much about quality as they were about protecting an industry: https://tinyurl.com/2enwrff3
Iceberger. Draw an iceberg and see how it will float: https://tinyurl.com/2ucfcc45
If you’ve never heard of a Patagonian crater agate, please enjoy: https://tinyurl.com/4ftnr6b4
These are the 23 varieties of native corn grown in the Eye of the Not A Cornfield Project: https://tinyurl.com/eeuyepjr
“Under Paris’ glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.”: https://tinyurl.com/sbsmjum9
Sapphire, a 1959 crime drama focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies and explores the “underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people” that exist towards another race: https://tinyurl.com/2s63htus
How cultural taboos can be tied to conservation: “But as the colonists, missionaries, and traders who followed in Cook’s footsteps violently suppressed Native people and knowledge, these protections frayed—and with them, the marine ecosystems that had supported Pacific cultures for millennia. In Hawai’i, after the U.S. government overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy and opened the waters to commercial fishing, moi and other fish populations plummeted. Similar scenarios unfolded across the world’s oceans”: https://tinyurl.com/49z4swdm
Yaupon is North America’s only known native caffeinated plant and once threatened the British East India Company. So why has the world forgotten about it?: https://tinyurl.com/5fwwd5fe
Tracking down the source photos for The Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: https://tinyurl.com/434wb5ka
Another amazing selection of gorgeous macro insect photos (as well as other critters, and some lovely landscapes): https://tinyurl.com/3dpdj3w9
After it’s “discovery” by European explorers, the great pyramid of Chichén Itzá was rebuilt into the tourist attraction it is today: https://tinyurl.com/hnbkm8v2
I just learned that there’s a species of jumping spider that’s evolved to look like a moth caterpillar and IT’S SO FUZZY: https://tinyurl.com/9tahf4et
“On the day of Vesak, the biggest Buddhist festival in South and Southeast Asia, a monk carries out annual prayer rites at the Quantum Temple. Artifacts that belong to the past and foretell the future swirl overhead in a hyper-fictional topography made up of hill fort homes, geodesic monuments, haunting projections, and gigantic fish.”: https://tinyurl.com/8kf23ef9
Tim Flach produces beautiful portraits of all kinds of animals. This link is for the “Endangered” gallery, but he has a few other galleries as well: https://tinyurl.com/5c4s8snp
If you’re a fan of Yellow Submarine, Airbnb has one: https://tinyurl.com/y38kc2fh
Scenes from Silence of the Lambs, organized by color (Contains some gifs of gore, violence): https://tinyurl.com/3c6mcmzx
The tale of Rattlesnake Kate (and her infamous dress): https://tinyurl.com/87x4zc8x
“Angélica Dass’s photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity’s true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race”: https://tinyurl.com/4vay76x7
BBC 4 Radio has a fascinating podcast series where they talk about 100 different human-made objects, one at a time, from the British Museum Collection: https://tinyurl.com/8b4tv6ds
A little dive into the history of the private underground transportation used by U.S. members of Congress and their staffers: https://tinyurl.com/r75uvcj2
Is the most accurate sword fight in cinematic history?: https://tinyurl.com/2pp6yzrw
“At best, the story of American intelligence activities before and during the crisis is far from complete. One of the most extraordinary omissions to date is the central role played by Moody, a 38-year-old code-breaking whiz and the head of the NSA’s Cuba desk during the perilous fall of 1962. Even today her name is largely unknown outside the agency, and the details of her contributions to the nation’s security remain closely guarded.”: https://tinyurl.com/m7ext8tf
The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto has acquired a colossal sculpture made from 100,000 pieces of Lego by the Ghanian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako, who is known for his Afrofuturist reimaginings of Black histories built from Lego bricks: https://tinyurl.com/shv4emhh
This animated short explores the effects of time and change focusing on the the worlds seemingly never ending cycles. The deterioration of one is the foundation for another. This fact takes on new dimensions when the unexpected forces of nature clash with the existing structures of our civilization (contains a brief scene of a dead animal): https://tinyurl.com/3f6n872
The chef who turns Beef Wellington into art: https://tinyurl.com/79z6bx4m