Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a delightful story: Five-year-old curator leads summer art exhibition in Bath. This is a terrific article: The Humble Shrub That’s Predicting a Terrible Fire Season. Within five years, I bet: Could electric tattoos be the next step in body art? This is an excellent deep dive into virus technology: The very common vaccine ingredient at the center of J&J, AstraZeneca drama.
Terrific links from C. Lee this week. As croissants do: Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant. I'm guessing 2020 might be in the Top Ten: Skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the very 'worst year' ever to be alive. An amazing story: How Soviet Children’s Books Became Collectors’ Items in India. This is a terrific essay: On Cats. This is thoughtful (to me, his style was incredibly undisciplined and self-indulgent, but I think I'm in the minority): David Foster Wallace: Genius? Now, three excellent links on sewers:
It’s Time to Knock the Toilet Off Its Pedestal
How Philadelphia Will Solve the Sewage Nightmare Under Its Feet
Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
From Wally, and this is a fascinating article: First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys. This is remarkable: Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor’s Attic Floorboards. A hotel obituary, of all things: So Long to the Hotel Pennsylvania. An incredible piece of machinery: IBM Selectric Golf Ball in slow motion.
From Meg McReynolds, and it is so, so funny: We are the Anglo-Saxon caucus! Let us have maethlfrith! Let us have drihtinbeage!
From Eric Higgins-Freese, and they'll pry my lawn from my cold, dead fingers (no they won't--I don't even want one): Death to America’s Manicured Lawns.
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