Friday, March 9, 2018

Friday links

March 10th is Chuck Norris' 78th birthday: his 5 most badass movies and a bunch of Norris "facts" plus a supercut of Norris's best kicks. Related: UK scientists recreated Neanderthal man, who looks just like Chuck Norris.


How Knot Analysis Can Reveal the Perpetrator of a Crime.

Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend: here's some DST history (including Ben Franklin's proposal), stories and video. Related: How daylight saving time works and why these states want to ditch it.

The Unlikely Friendship Between Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin.

The golden age of false rumps.

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include a map of how butterflies are related to each other, a roundup of funny colonoscopy videos, when you grow up never realizing you're on the run from the Mob, and, for Michelangelo's birthday, his illustrated grocery list.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Tuesday links

It's Michelangelo's birthday - here's a brief bio, some art, and his illustrated grocery list.

Guy Makes Functional 2 X 2 Rubik's Cube Out Of Cheddar (Plus Plastic Core).

New Comprehensive Map of How Butterflies Are Related to Each Other.

If you're of a certain age, you'll appreciate this roundup of funny colonoscopy videos.


ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include the anniversary of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. Victorian beauty tips, waterbed history, a dish-washing monkey, and Stalin’s meteorologist who was imprisoned for “false weather forecasts".

Monday, March 5, 2018

Monday links

March 5th is the anniversary of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.

Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist - imprisoned for “false weather forecasts,” he sent sketches to the family he’d never see again.



Victorian beauty tips.

The Weird True Story of the Rise and Fall of the Waterbed

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include why ballet dancers turn clockwise, a 1799 list of risk factors for spontaneous combustion, plus more recent science, GPS doodling via bicycle, and, for Dr. Seuss's birthday, his little-known book of nudes: The Seven Lady Godivas (SFW).

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Check out this video of a monkey washing dishes

She's not very good at the drying part.

Lulu, a nine-year-old Golden Capuchin monkey (wiki), has been living with her owner Arthur Flemix in Benoni since she was only two weeks old.

Arthur says Lulu has been imitating his behavior - whether that is cooking, bathing or washing the dishes - for a very long time. 

If only all our pets could be this good.
Owner Arthur shared this adorable video of his monkey after catching the cute pet washing the dishes. The observant animal would watch her owner do the dishes but this time she decided to lend a helping hand as her owner cooked.


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