Misc. linkspam
Author ursulav wrote a poem "This Vote is Legally Binding", "in response to all those articles about talking to women with headphones", and it's delightful.
"German Designers Create The Perfect Furniture For Curious Cats".
"The Burkini-Bikini False Equivalence and Your Disproportionate Outrage".
"Bloodbaths and bad dreams: Shaun Tan's fairytale sculptures".
"Migrations In Motion". "This map shows the average direction mammals, birds, and amphibians need to move to track hospitable climates as they shift across the landscape."
"Extreme Napping in the Animal Kingdom".
"Meet Moya Bailey, the black woman who created the term 'misogynoir'".
"How to Survive in a Warmer World [Interactive]: A map of Earth in 2100 reveals where livelihoods are at stake due to climate change-and what people are doing to prepare for that future". [Scientific American]
"New evidence supports claim that William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' may have been a Clerkenwell prostitute".
"The Mysterious History of the Ellipsis, From Medieval Subpuncting to Irrational Numbers".
"Why Did Microsoft Trick So Many Users Into Installing Windows 10?" [The Mary Sue]
"How Peanuts' Peppermint Patty became a fierce advocate for female athletes".
"Hair in War: “Hair, and what is done to it and by whom, is never really trivial.”" [Note: includes a section on a visit to Auschwitz.]
"Meet The Closest Living Relative To The Extinct Dodo Bird With Incredibly Colorful Iridescent Feathers".
"The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber: Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us".
Related, via
cofax7, "The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold". [2015]
Also via
cofax7, "English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language".
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/721717.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
"German Designers Create The Perfect Furniture For Curious Cats".
"The Burkini-Bikini False Equivalence and Your Disproportionate Outrage".
"Bloodbaths and bad dreams: Shaun Tan's fairytale sculptures".
"Migrations In Motion". "This map shows the average direction mammals, birds, and amphibians need to move to track hospitable climates as they shift across the landscape."
"Extreme Napping in the Animal Kingdom".
"Meet Moya Bailey, the black woman who created the term 'misogynoir'".
"How to Survive in a Warmer World [Interactive]: A map of Earth in 2100 reveals where livelihoods are at stake due to climate change-and what people are doing to prepare for that future". [Scientific American]
"New evidence supports claim that William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' may have been a Clerkenwell prostitute".
"The Mysterious History of the Ellipsis, From Medieval Subpuncting to Irrational Numbers".
"Why Did Microsoft Trick So Many Users Into Installing Windows 10?" [The Mary Sue]
"How Peanuts' Peppermint Patty became a fierce advocate for female athletes".
"Hair in War: “Hair, and what is done to it and by whom, is never really trivial.”" [Note: includes a section on a visit to Auschwitz.]
"Meet The Closest Living Relative To The Extinct Dodo Bird With Incredibly Colorful Iridescent Feathers".
"The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber: Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us".
Related, via
cofax7, "The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold". [2015]
Also via
cofax7, "English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language".
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/721717.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: