interesting links roundup #12
reading #
- An American composer’s biological matter creates new music from beyond the grave
- The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits
- The dark side of the Moomins
- Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript
- Deconstructing Housing
- The Great Hobby Lobby Artifact Heist, part 1 (+ part 2)
- The hidden religious divide erupting into politics
- The High Heel Problem
- How Germans Buy New Kidneys in Kenya
- How two men stole Edvard Munch’s The Scream in just 50 seconds — and how authorities managed to get the painting back
- If You Ever See This Speed Sign, You’re Probably Going To Die
- An IKEA bookshelf’s third coming
- Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?
- The Man Who Broke Bowling
- The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve
- The Play Where Everyone Keeps Fainting
- Pokérus: unraveling the biology of the Pokémon virus
- The rise of the infinite fringe
- Scientists Hack Human Eye to See a Whole New Color, Called “Olo”
- Snap. Crack. Stroke.
- Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands of patients since 2015
- Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games
- Starved in Jail
- A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?
- The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
- The Third Sex
- The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
- The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned
- Why the Right Way To Fly a Rhino Is Upside Down
- Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
tools/reference #
- Emulation General Wiki
- “Good” Flag, “Bad” Flag
- How to make a Longbow
- Pink Trombone
- Public Domain Image Archive
- Unsplash