Hallways with threatening auras: https://tinyurl.com/333f5nzf
How to dress for hostile architecture: https://tinyurl.com/4vxbzhzc
The Dutch government makes GREAT safety videos: https://tinyurl.com/3mnrs7x9
Mechanical Masterpieces is a collection of paintings re-imagined for the 21st century. Optimized for short attention spans, it allows viewers to poke, switch, disco, inflate and water paintings to their heart’s content. The installation was created for The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh as part of their Tough Art Residency: https://tinyurl.com/2p8db5c2
A most wonderful collection of piñatas: https://tinyurl.com/2p9546wp
Beautifully intricate dot paintings by Oxana Lazari: https://tinyurl.com/2p9chtfu
If you’ve ever seen animal skeletons in a museum and wondered how all those bones get put back together, Galileo Ramos demonstrates the tedious and exacting process of putting a chameleon skull back together (skull bones of small and/or immature animals often come apart during the cleaning process in many species): https://tinyurl.com/43fbv8rz
Vibrant and amazing felted murals by Zofia W-G: https://tinyurl.com/2p89ymf5
Investigating the infamous “Waterloo breastplate”: https://tinyurl.com/4e9vjyct
Templates that help you recycle paper bags into small accessories: https://tinyurl.com/2s3vwtwp
A visual guide to reconstructing dunkleosteus (an extinct genus of large, armored, jawed fishes that existed about 382–358 million years ago): https://tinyurl.com/yckp3e53
You’re probably familiar with Dueling Banjos, but have you heard……..DUELING TROMBONES?: https://tinyurl.com/2p8e53f6
Vínill vikunnar is a weekly radio program on Iceland’s state broadcaster RÚV. The idea is simple, the play a whole vinyl album from start to finish. Each album is introduced in Icelandic, before playing side A, and the presenter speaks in the middle while they turn the record around and play side B: https://tinyurl.com/2nw5svry
A charming song to remind people that archaeologists do NOT do dinosaurs (the dinosaur scientists are Paleontologists): https://tinyurl.com/yckjmcuf
A ginormous archive of drawings of the root systems of 1,180 different plants: https://tinyurl.com/2mxsmhb2
Extremely cool looking caterpillar: https://tinyurl.com/44rt34u5
A neat little video of paper engineering class projects: https://tinyurl.com/2p8u8426
Take the McSweeney’s one-question career test!: https://tinyurl.com/2c9v3h4z
Can’t make it to see the Redwoods in person? Maybe you’ll enjoy a relaxing, three hour drive through the Redwoods on video (the music is kind of terrible so you might want to play your own): https://tinyurl.com/msttwyhw
Did you know the FBI has an “Artifact of the Month” gallery?: https://tinyurl.com/5x9b6ttd
You may be familiar with the hot new word game Wordle, but you may not have seen the fun word game called Lewdle, where all the words are lewd and inappropriate: https://tinyurl.com/yzsynaud
Danny Huynh makes fantastic, Mad Max-ish RC cars: https://tinyurl.com/yhuv36mz
River Runner lets you click anywhere on a map of the world, and then calculates the likely route a drop of rain would take to the sea where it to fall where you clicked – and then generates a flythrough from Google Maps which takes you on an eagle’s eye trip along the raindrop’s route to the ocean: https://tinyurl.com/yc8zaz2d
“In the late 1950s, Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II and Brigadier General Don D. Flickinger, the chair and vice chair of NASA’s Special Committee on Life Sciences and both experts in aerospace medicine, seriously discussed the possibility of sending women rather than men into space”: https://tinyurl.com/wk9vrkhh
The Soviet nuclear disaster that happened 30 years before Chernobyl: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zhj7s
Sylvie Fancon offers stunning gowns with a literary touch: https://tinyurl.com/2casuzam
The Museum of Contemporary Emotions is a project from Finland which sought to map the emotions of the country’s residents over the course of the pandemic: https://tinyurl.com/y6cnp8mr
A fascinating list of 2021’s best data visualizations: https://tinyurl.com/cpxspywk
A weird little website where you are shown an image from WikiHow and you have to decide what the image is teaching (On desktop there’s a tiny dropdown menu to the right of the “How to”, click that to reveal the multiple choices you can choose from): https://tinyurl.com/2p86uvy7
Innocent cat devoured by ravenous pink blob monster: https://tinyurl.com/76se2mmd
A Zimbabwean archaeologist re-imagines the story of a momentous African civilization: https://tinyurl.com/2p8ax3ja
A short film centered around Mallorca and it’s hidden living fossils that inhabit the island: https://tinyurl.com/ypmsd7p4
Another fun little online music-making toy: https://tinyurl.com/2p828swd
What would popular logos look like in the Middle Ages?: https://tinyurl.com/2p8pe453
Ian’s Shoelace Site has everything you ever wanted to know about shoelaces!: https://tinyurl.com/yspfxt3h
Type in the name of a musical artist/band and it’ll show you a map of similar artists: https://tinyurl.com/2p8ywz9w
Scroll down into the darkest depths of the oceans: https://tinyurl.com/2p9djduf
Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen – his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world: https://tinyurl.com/26k55arz
A cocktail dress made from 2,652 pennies: https://tinyurl.com/m2xee6df
imagineRio is a searchable digital atlas that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro, as it existed and as it was imagined. Views of the city created by artists, maps by cartographers, and site plans by architects or urbanists are all located in both time and space: https://tinyurl.com/5e97hk44
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