Thursday, December 04, 2025

Friday Links!

Leading off the week, after twenty years, we've finally gotten around to pigeon racing: Homeward Bound: On Pigeon Racing.

Guitar nerd (David G.) alert! The guitarist’s palette

Tremendous and thought-provoking: Desert survivors: Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes.

A terrific interview: After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death.

One of my favorite inventions: Swiss engineer's dog walk led to Velcro breakthrough in 1941 (video)

Eli sent me this, and it's an astonishing series: Gold Mafia - Episode 1 - The Laundry Service I Al Jazeera Investigations

I've never seen anything like this behavior before: A bear saving a crow from drowning

Fascinating: Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently

From Wally, and it's the word of the year: Oxford University Press picks "rage bait" as its word of the year for 2025. Walking wooden sculptures, and you've seen things from this artist before: STRANDBEEST EVOLUTION 2017

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