Friday Links!
From Meg McReynolds, and this is just amazing: Patek Philippe Pocket Watch, ca. 1914. And a follow-up: Patek Philippe complicated pocket watch.From Steven Davis, and this is just nuts: A 19 year old freerunner takes on the ‘World’s Largest Parkour Course. It's large: Bigger Than T. Rex: Spinosaurussave. This is amazing: Gaudí’s First Built House Opens to the Public for the First Time in its 130-Year-Old History. This is remarkably clever: The Roman Empire’s 250,000 Miles of Roadways Imagined as a Subway Transit Map. Quite random: Sandwich Bag Fire Starter.
From Wally, and it's quite interesting: Why All of Upstate New York Grew Up Eating the Same Barbecue Chicken. The last one is classic: 20 of the Worst PC Setups – May 2017.
From C. Lee, and this is not encouraging: What Gets Stolen From Restaurants? Everything. This is a fascinating perspective to understand world population: What Would the World Look Like if There Were Only 100 People? This is discouraging: The Konami exodus.
From Lummox JR, and this is brilliant: MIT Has Developed Colour-Changing Tattoo Ink That Monitors Your Health in Real Time.
From Tim Lesnick, and this is stunning: Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found.
From Brian Witte, and this is mind-blowing: Scientists got an image of a person’s face just by scanning a monkey’s brain. This images are just stunning: Every summer, men head into the Siberian wilderness to hunt for mammoth tusks.
From Eric Higgins-Freese, and it's very clever (as a revenue stream for the company who makes them): Japan’s Bizarre Anti-Crime Orange Balls – A Unique Way to Stop Crime.
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