Friday Links!
Leading off this week, because everyone should see it: Saturday Night Live Gives Oscar the Grouch the Joker Treatment, and It's Perfectly Ridiculous.This is genuinely inspiring and tremendously courageous: ‘Women That Would Gladly Give Their Life’: How The Paramilitary Women's Emergency Brigade Battled GM At The UAW's First Big Strike.
It's hard to build character when you don't have any yourself: What Art Briles Brought To The Town That Never Asked For Him.
This is quite amazing: Why Lightning Strikes Twice as Much Over Shipping Lanes.
This is fascinating: Researchers find just two plague strains wiped out 30%-60% of Europe.
Oops! Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies.
From Wally, and it's a gearhead red alert: Orley Ray Courtney. Wait, no config.sys to screw with? Software Library: MS-DOS Games. I only wish he'd been asked to make a Charlie Brown cartoon: REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT (Blu-ray restoration). Breathe in, everybody: Cruise Ship Passing Through Corinth Canal. A terrific read: The Dreyfuss Nightmare.
From Kevin Womack, and this is astounding: Beluga whale saves an iPhone from the sea in Norway...
From C. Lee, and it's a brilliant idea: Osaka University develops easy method to detect early dementia. This is always the listed house that you can afford: Home buyers, beware: Contamination from cooking meth can linger for years. This is awesome: MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel. I had no idea: The Man Who Mentored da Vinci Receives First U.S. Retrospective. This is a fascinating explanation: Why Renaissance Paintings Aren’t as Green as They Used to Be. I missed this trend: Irish Butter Kerrygold Has Conquered America’s Kitchens. Here's a terrific This American Life episode: A Policeman Burns Down the Firehouse.
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