A rare sighting of a ginormous deep sea jellyfish: https://tinyurl.com/5n7fvex5
How to pronounce the longest place name in Aotearoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeZ9epc_KSY
In 1996, Nez Perce Tribe members had to fundraise hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay the Ohio History Connection to secure artifacts that were rightfully theirs: https://tinyurl.com/3ce2jcwt
Floating Motors envisions a new concept of boating, for the first time bringing into the water the shapes of the most legendary cars of the automotive history, inventing a new water mobility trend which we like to call “Resto-Floating”: https://tinyurl.com/yckvrax2
An intimate look at the NYC subway & the thousands of items and people that get lost in its tunnel: https://tinyurl.com/4b6928bj
A gallery of photos from the 2020 International Aquatic Plants Layout (otherwise known as “Aquascaping”) Contest: https://tinyurl.com/5czsc95e
An analysis of that old favorite “Jingle bells, Batman smells…”: https://tinyurl.com/ye28urjc
Behind the doors of a handsome Georgian townhouse overlooking leafy Russell Square is the world’s oldest collection of material on the Nazi era: https://tinyurl.com/33xddd97
Ever feel like you need an extra set of hands?: https://tinyurl.com/2p83t84d
The unique horror that is the Mountain Dew Grilled Cheese: https://tinyurl.com/2p8pshfs
“Pantheon is a website which has grown out of a research project by MIT and is now a standalone thing – its aim is to “expose patterns of human collective memory. Pantheon contains data on more than 70k biographies, which Pantheon distributes through a powerful data visualization engine centered on locations, occupations, and biographies”: https://tinyurl.com/bdcmyxd4
Cartoon Fossils by artist Filip Hodas: https://tinyurl.com/yckv87mw
Hasselblad, maker of some of the world’s fanciest cameras, offers a gallery of their photo contest winners: https://tinyurl.com/ycksd7cu
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias: https://tinyurl.com/2p9eajx8
The website of the archive of the National Museum of African American Culture and History, which is not only a fascinating trove of information about Black American history but which is a really good example of how to present elements of a collection in digital form: https://tinyurl.com/55x42m6x
Cool little video showing a simulation of two galaxies colliding, and matching images of actual colliding galaxies: https://tinyurl.com/2p8bxkpz
Take an immersive virtual tour of the Valley of the Kings: https://tinyurl.com/mrxy86c2
If you’re a fan of brutalist architecture, you might fancy this chess set: https://tinyurl.com/2p9yu4rn
The saga of a bizarre, bewildering, and rather Twilight Zone-ish “gourmet” meal: https://tinyurl.com/yjc5sw29
A case of a woman with an ectopic pregnancy IN HER LIVER: https://tinyurl.com/2p8f2wf4
Ultra-upcycling: https://tinyurl.com/2p823hfb
Fantastic Stegosaurus Pride stickers, available in 2 sizes and 15 different designs: https://tinyurl.com/2p8hycjc
I hope the banana made a full recovery: https://tinyurl.com/3ndab865
Most of us have heard that story about how ancient Greeks used to abandon any babies that were born sick or imperfect, but the evidence tells a different story: https://tinyurl.com/ycxrjx5m
Birdwatchers around the world are being called on to turn detective and help in a search for some of the rarest birds on Earth: https://tinyurl.com/yw6mfvhd
The Arctic Chonkbeest: https://tinyurl.com/y9sfhjyb
Oooooh, SHINY: https://tinyurl.com/2p86ychr
Watch Sebastián Álvarez fly in and out of Villarrica, one of Chile’s most famous volcanos: https://tinyurl.com/3pu22cxy
Attack of the vampire butterflies: https://tinyurl.com/65tdpave
The world’s first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, in other words, the world’s first automobile, was built by the largely unknown French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot: https://tinyurl.com/2p9e8nyv
“Returned to Nepal by the FBI, a Sculpture Becomes a God Again”: https://tinyurl.com/2p8tyaww
I’m a terrible person for laughing: https://tinyurl.com/d4par5w6
Roughly ten thousand years ago a baby girl was buried in a cave with the utmost care. This find is notable not just because infant remains tend to decay away to nothing very quickly, and therefore are rare in the archaeological record, but also because it gives us insights into how this long gone group of people appear to have truly cherished their children: https://tinyurl.com/23swj2xb
Leila Jeffreys makes wonderful photos of birds (On the Photographic Artworks page, click each thumbnail to see an album of pics). Also a couple of lovely works under the Video Artworks tab: https://tinyurl.com/2p8e6c6a
“Zalgo text is digital text that has been modified with combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear creepy or glitchy. Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence of an eldritch deity, Zalgo text has become a significant component of many Internet memes, particularly in the “surreal meme” culture”: https://tinyurl.com/ytkzyy42
A creepy and moving short story about a man and his personal banshee: https://tinyurl.com/2zatxt3n
The long and underappreciated history of male witches: https://tinyurl.com/2b3cp9jy
Neuroscience says listening to this song reduces anxiety by up to 65%: https://tinyurl.com/2p9x8c24
A closeup look at the gorgeous feathers of a hummingbird (Instagram link): https://tinyurl.com/42xusy8b
The wonderfully dark paintings of J Edward Neill: https://tinyurl.com/525beuru
Watch the trains of Tokyo in real-time from the comfort of your home: https://tinyurl.com/yc253z7z
If weird, shiny, inflatable, and all-around eye-popping fashion is your jam, behold the 2018 Spring/Summer collection from Jack Irving (I can’t even walk in heels but I still want those boots): https://tinyurl.com/4h9xe4jp
peacheserratica 