Friday links

Smoking Psychedelic Toad Milk May Help Depression.

How to Turn 12 Everyday Items Into Improvised Weapons

The Hughes H-4 Hercules, The World’s Largest Flying Boat That Flew for Only 26 Seconds.

Science: Why is the sky blue? How do bees and butterflies see? How does an igloo keep you warm?

Nova Scotia man whose Victoria hotel room was destroyed by seagulls allowed to return after 17-year ban.

Car Keys Mysteriously Stopped Working in This Small Ohio Town, And We Now Know Why.

ICYMI, most recent links are here, and include ancient Chinese buildings held together with sticky rice, why cats (and other animals) look as if they're wearing socks, and medieval toothpaste recipes (plus more medieval dental advice).

Monday links

May 12 was the birthday of Victorian poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti - here's a brief bio, some art and poetry, and a bit on his obsession with wombats.

Ancient Chinese Buildings Are Held Together With Sticky Rice.

This Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World - After Pearl Harbor, the crew of Pan Am flight 18602 was forced to do the impossible.

Five medieval toothpaste recipes, plus more medieval dental advice.

Why Do Cats—and So Many Other Animals—Look Like They’re Wearing Socks?

Why You Feel the Urge to Jump — The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a roundup of Mother's Day links, the 1970s flying Winnebago, an explanation of why we forget what we're doing when we enter a room, and, for Fred Astaire's birthday, clips of some of his best dancing.