Friday Links!
This is entirely wonderful: You'll never forget this YouTube account where a man serenades elephants on the piano.This is a hundred and fifty-nine years overdue: Marine commandant banishes Confederate symbols from all Corps installations.
This is quite amazing: Researchers find an animal without mitochondria.
Sheer exuberance (and his head is as still as a world-class sprinter): Westminster Dog Show Obstacle Course Winning Run.
From Wally, and it's a terrific read: Solari boards: The disappearing sound of airports. An epic headline: Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race. This is fascinating but tough to read: In the Midst of a Border Crisis, Cooking Is About More Than Survival. A classic, but not anywhere near the best game: How to win Monopoly in the shortest possible time. This is an astonishing video: Aquatilis-Under The Ice. This might be really helpful to me, actually: The Hottest New Literary Genre Is ‘Doomer Lit’. So good: I went to Hogwarts for seven years and did not learn math or spelling, and now I can't get a job.
A series of strong links from Ken Piper. First, it's This Clever Robotic Finger Feels With Light. Next, an excellent list: The Most Influential Science-Fiction Books Of All Time. About time: Physics undergrads crunched numbers for Star Trek’s tribble problem. This is a very interesting read: Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses.
The always excellent C. Lee sends this along: Soba restaurant in Japan struggles to find new employee, rewords job ad and offers flood in. Fascinating and provocative: If only Iwo Jima had been captured sooner. Terrific: The Fairey Rotodyne, the vertical takeoff and landing airliner time forgot. Such an excellent, wonderful movie: ‘Parasite’ Has a Hidden Backstory of Middle-Class Failure and Chicken Joints.
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