Friday links

An animated history of Valentine's Day, plus an explanation of why the heart is associated with love.

DIY machine sorts M&Ms and Skittles by color.

BBC: The 'untranslatable' emotions you never knew you had.

Supercut of people running in slow motion in movies.

Humans And Booze - A 9,000-Year Love Affair.

Eating spicy food might help you live longer.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include the etymologies of all 50 state’s names, 1649 suggestion for adding weasel brain to your cheese to keep rats and mice away, WW1 meatless (and wheatless) recipes, and a Bill of Mortality showing causes of death in London for the week of Aug 15 - 22, 1665. 

Monday links

Add some weasel brain to your cheese to keep rats and mice away: advice from 1649.

Cops use pacemaker data to charge homeowner with arson, insurance fraud.

The etymologies of all 50 state’s names.

This Bill of Mortality shows the death tally of all city parishes in London for the week of Aug 15 - 22, 1665. The Plague is the number 1 cause of death, followed by various fevers, consumption, and Griping in the Guts.

How Mr. Coffee made coffee-making a man’s job.

Recipes for the Meatless, Wheatless Meals of World War I America.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include lots of Super Bowl-related stuff, what would happen if we flooded Death Valley, and a plethora of recipes for World Nutella Day.