NeSpoon is a Polish street artist who creates lovely murals based on traditional lace patterns: https://tinyurl.com/52sxpydh
Redecorating the Oval Office isn’t just a statement of the president’s taste. It’s also a statement of control: https://tinyurl.com/ny9nx2rc
Comprising a hundred and fifty male couples, Thebes’s Sacred Band was undefeated until it was wiped out in 338 B.C. In the nineteenth century, the mass grave of the men was found: https://tinyurl.com/vp3wbrwp
An educational Twitter thread about tiny snakes and their weird jaws (It’s pretty heavy on the science terms, but the pics are still cool): https://tinyurl.com/hukvc7tv
Please give it up for Mr. Handsome!: https://tinyurl.com/yuw4rjyc
Of COURSE it lives in Australia: https://tinyurl.com/rexw978z
Good news! Your dazzling designer pizza purse dreams have been realized!: https://tinyurl.com/vx8hzvu4
Dr. Christine Na-Eun Millar is a physician, gamer, and costumer who loves to unwind by crafting lovely and impressive historical gowns and outfits: https://tinyurl.com/r4uhtc3d
Powerful portraits by Sophie Rowan: https://tinyurl.com/4d22bxc4
The amazing life, and tragic death, of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, She was an educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women’s rights activist, and the mother of the beloved activist and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti: https://tinyurl.com/j8b3smk5
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a new NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas, called an accretion disk, that surrounds each one: https://tinyurl.com/5buktr5z
Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru was once a beautiful and thriving ecosystem, but was sadly overtaken by a seemingly endless sea of plastic waster and chemicals. Now hundreds of volunteers have come to clean it up: https://tinyurl.com/7b9krhzw
“Mind The Gap” is a downloadable clinical handbook of signs and symptoms in Black and brown skin, designed to highlight the lack of diversity in medical literature and education: https://tinyurl.com/225ckkpr
You may have seen posts of Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider-like sculpture, but you may not know the story and trauma behind its creation: https://tinyurl.com/3ec833av
The volcano that burns blue: https://tinyurl.com/jts5n2hp
“Every single Imperial occupation of Afghanistan since Alexander the Great has had the same justification. They were all defensive invasions, necessary to reduce the “threat” from Afghanistan to the Imperial power”: https://tinyurl.com/852yut44
A collection of ridiculous over-acting and corny dialogue from the 1978 disaster movie ‘The Swarm’. African killer bees invade Texas, provoking a considerable amount of melodrama: https://tinyurl.com/4pzukzbx
Valeska Gert was a fascinating character. Born in 1892, she became renowned as a dancer, choreographer, mime, and cabaret artist. Some crowds were entranced by her boldness, and others repelled and angered by the “grotesqueness” of her performances. Some even credit her for planting the seeds of the punk movement, but everyone seems to have their own thoughts and feelings about this artist. Here’s a short performance piece she did, and there are loads more links about her online: https://tinyurl.com/3v2rr3jt
A lovely little banjo cover of Aphex Twin’s “Avril 14th”: https://tinyurl.com/ub79zvtx
A painting transforms before your eyes: https://tinyurl.com/332ksjt6
“Do you want a thread exploring the links between that ship stuck in Suez, the Trojan War, the founding of Singapore, and Chinese foreign policy, from the Belt and Road and South China Sea to Taiwan? Of course you do!”: https://tinyurl.com/k6de4j9c
Here’s what it’s like to spend the night in Chernobyl: https://tinyurl.com/57bn7vj4
This pterosaur supported its giant neck with bones built like bicycle wheels: https://tinyurl.com/29fy7pur
Georgia’s (The country, not the U.S. state) pre-Christian festival of Berikaoba nearly vanished before one woman made it her mission to revive it: https://tinyurl.com/xkp55ez6
Ahhhh, I do love the DIY inventiveness of Russians: https://tinyurl.com/3tdyx96p
A valiant tweeter shares fun and educational reviews of animal bites: https://tinyurl.com/39umrzzp
For the 3D printing nerds out there, a triple axis tourbillon mechanism (Yes I absolutely had to google what a tourbillon is): https://tinyurl.com/j3w92erk
The Titanic’s lost Chinese survivors: https://tinyurl.com/wx2b493t
From Bored panda, a giggle-worthy thread of non-traditional science paper titles: https://tinyurl.com/3vp2zekb
Photojournalist Brian Skerry explores the culture of whales: https://tinyurl.com/4zs8jedz
A lovely short film about the Nez Peace and local farmers working together to restore the Lostine River and its once-flourishing fish populations: https://vimeo.com/527606800
A living hammock made from weeping willow branches: https://tinyurl.com/ravpb7vp
Have you ever heard the drumming of a male Ruffed Grouse?: https://tinyurl.com/3d8wrh9y
This little turtle is NOT having it: https://tinyurl.com/p8t7t5up
The Lomax Digital Archive (Part of the Library of Congress) provides free access to audio/visual collections compiled across seven decades by folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002) and his father John A. Lomax (1867–1948): https://tinyurl.com/nmh85c3v
A lovely infographic about cephalopods: https://tinyurl.com/4dn9cdbn