The story of young Vinny Byrne, a fourteen-year-old boy who found himself fighting for Ireland in the Easter Rising. An eighty-year-old Vinny reminisces on his time with the volunteers, which took him around the city during the fighting. With Vinny’s Dublin brought to life by handmade miniature sets and puppetry, the film offers a uniquely charming first-hand account of the 1916 Rising: https://tinyurl.com/wuh5ch8z
Interpreting some of the world’s oldest known rock art: https://tinyurl.com/2nfptw8z
If you love science illustrations, Twitter’s #SciArtTweetStorm hashtag brings us a wealth of posts from illustrators around the world: https://tinyurl.com/pj9x28a9
Some folks may not be aware that in certain cultures, during certain time periods, it was completely normal and acceptable for men to wear corsets, sometimes for fashion and sometimes, as is the case in this article, as a medical device: https://tinyurl.com/udvw4hts
I’m a 70s kid so weird macrame wall hangings and plant hangers were an everyday part of the landscape, but Sandra de Groot takes it to a whole now and glorious level: https://tinyurl.com/p97d8b9j
A wonderful song and video from Trio Mandili, three Georgian polyphonic singers – Tatuli Mgeladze, Tako Tsiklauri, and Mariam Kurasbediani: https://tinyurl.com/9k6bwtsc
“Pleasant people doing pleasant things and there’s not much drama and you just kind of feel lovely about the world”: https://tinyurl.com/ysmubype
If you’ve never heard the sound a baby rhinoceros makes: https://tinyurl.com/jmdp7nk
A weird website of imaginary friends: https://tinyurl.com/54vk4enw
Interesting scientific article about a washed up minke whale that was found to have scoliosis. It certainly happens in animals, as it does in humans, but it’s not often that we find examples like this: https://tinyurl.com/34tad63t
Radiohead’s “Creep” performed in 13 different styles: https://tinyurl.com/3v4zfwym
Ravel’s Bolero performed by four musicians on one cello: https://tinyurl.com/y5myrfd9
Beautifully decorated Easter eggs by artist Dinara Mirtalipova: https://tinyurl.com/3dpkchxw
New style of stringed instrument just dropped and I have to say I’m a fan: https://tinyurl.com/3t225rj3
An experiment devised by one of Greece’s greatest thinkers and scientists, Eratosthenes, was recreated once again recently by students from 35 nations around the globe as part of an annual scientific project: https://tinyurl.com/jzc54daz
A Leonia High School teacher has created a poignant, Latin language cover of “Let It Be,” among the most famous songs by the Beatles: https://tinyurl.com/hp2f5jd9
Relearning a centuries-old technology to save Scandinavia’s beloved stave churches: https://tinyurl.com/5tadpes7
“The Bombay Highway Code“ is a poem, a postcard and a love letter bundled up in one short film shot on the streets of Mumbai: https://tinyurl.com/5a5x2mnv
From TYWKIWDBI, a brief post about gene transfer between insects and plants, with links to more detailed articles: https://tinyurl.com/9s7s6jx9
A celebration of contemporary paper art, a new book gathers a wide-ranging collection of collages, quilled portraits, and intricately cut landscapes from 24 artists and studios around the globe: https://tinyurl.com/8wkuacmp
A cool little lesson on how various manmade objects can impact water flow: https://tinyurl.com/6rnjbsve
If you were wondering how the world’s billionaires have been doing over the last year: https://tinyurl.com/3538juj5
Dr. Nehemiah Mabry, PE, knows a lot about bridges. Nehemiah is a structural engineer and an educator; and he builds bridges for a living. Dr. Mabry sits down with WIRED to talk about all different kinds of bridges from around the globe: https://tinyurl.com/4cv7de9m
New York’s 300-year-old trash becomes treasure in the hands of urban archaeologist and artist Scott Jordan: https://tinyurl.com/yabdctht
For anyone who happens to be interested in such things, here’s a transcript of the court proceedings against John Bellingham, the man who assassinated the British Prime Minister in 1812, and was subsequently executed and then sent to the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School for dissection and study. Before the Anatomy Act of 1832, using the bodies of executed criminals was really the only legitimate way that English medical schools could get cadavers for research and teaching. The other method involved doing business with local body snatchers, a practice that was quit illegal but still quite common: https://tinyurl.com/5czpxv7f
The church forests of Ethiopia are small and precious oases in a land where the old growth forests have been almost completely wiped out to make way for agriculture: https://tinyurl.com/2jj5mnpe
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