Monday links

Composer Dimitri Shostakovich was born September 25, 1906: some quotes, history, and music.

Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Just Got Linked to a Whole Lot of Neurological Disorders.

How the Star Trek Punch Became the Worst Fight Move on TV.

Hypnotic breast enlargement.

Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Armageddon in 1983 Dies at 77.

The Long, Strange Journey of Buffalo Bill's Corpse.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include the physics of wiffle ball, some equinox science for the first day of Fall, the use of the ducking stool on common scolds, and a kid showing his dad how to make Leonardo da Vinci’s self-supporting bridge.