Linkdump #93

A delightful miniature handcrafted for the modern age: https://tinyurl.com/y3qetmbr

Plowing snow in the Italian Alps: https://tinyurl.com/y64nxbz6

An interesting gif showing the composition of the earth’s surface: https://tinyurl.com/yygef6ks

Lovely zoetrope by Tee Ken Ng: https://tinyurl.com/y4tx73oy

In the mountains of northern Spain, in the 1980s, archaeologists discovered what they believed to be human remains 100ft underground. As improbable as that may be, the story only gets stranger – because the remains weren’t of Homo sapiens, nor were they Neanderthals. They were something new altogether: https://tinyurl.com/y46eo3xh

A tough and extremely worthwhile read about what some migrants endure to reach the U.S., and the horrors that drove them to make the journey: https://tinyurl.com/yyh7wzxp

Finnish sauna culture has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage: https://tinyurl.com/y2ttl5yd

Sooooo apparently chocolate ramen is a thing: https://tinyurl.com/yxdf4u33

An interesting and interactive way of learning about musical scales: https://tinyurl.com/yyyab4y8

If you’re a fan of macro insect photos, photographer Alex Wild has a great selection to enjoy: https://tinyurl.com/yy3m4qeu

Archaeologists can see literally social/economic inequality in peoples’ bones: https://tinyurl.com/y2eetute

Overlooking the distant mountain ranges of northern Italy, the Ötzi Peak observation deck by NOA* Network of Architecture is completed at an elevation of 3251 meters (10,660 feet): https://tinyurl.com/y57u7qpx

Remembering a supreme canine actor: https://tinyurl.com/y397qn4s

The paintings of Jules Perahim remind me of Dali: https://tinyurl.com/yy76a2ph

Pee-Wee Park, a giggle-worthy mashup horror film: https://tinyurl.com/yxbzwq85

I was today years old when I found out that there’s such a thing as a “Sympathetic nail violin” (You can skip ahead to about 6:30 if you just want to hear what it sounds like): https://tinyurl.com/y6xaplqc

A delightful diatribe about all the things wrong with a single scene from Gladiator: https://tinyurl.com/y2u5c9fr

Worn copies of World Books, agricultural texts, and classic novels become canvases for Rose Sanderson’s insect studies. Now a few years old, the expansive series boasts more than 100 paintings featuring beetles, moths, and butterflies that splay across the printed material: https://tinyurl.com/y62xft79

A delightful Twitter thread about a chap who volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms. For science, of course: https://tinyurl.com/y3kc2ja2

Lovingly restoring a 1978 Millennium Falcon model: https://tinyurl.com/y2ucx42z

So apparently Microsoft has been granted a patent that would allow the company to make a chatbot using the personal information of deceased people: https://tinyurl.com/y28kyeov

A firefighter edits himself into a TV show to highlight a few issues with media representations of firefighting. I absolutely LOLed: https://tinyurl.com/y4lsffuj

London’s Weiner Holocaust Library has published several hundred digitized survivor testimonies online, and plans to release roughly 1,500 more later in the year: https://tinyurl.com/y5pa2gzo

A drone takes us on a tour of the inside of a Dutch Walrus-class diesel electric submarine: https://tinyurl.com/y3wteczo

Six drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs: https://tinyurl.com/y44fkrwu

Wikiart is a fantastic resource where you can look for art based on style, genre, time period, artist name, etc: https://tinyurl.com/gw8xkrk

A Scottish game bird struts around making rather odd noises at a skier. Is it angry? Aroused? Trying to inform him about his car’s extended warranty? WHO KNOWS: https://tinyurl.com/y5vatt8k

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