Friday links

Fashion Ads From The 1970s. Warning - once you see these, they can't be unseen.

When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats.

When George Soros Broke the British Pound.

Three major battles took place on October 25th - Agincourt, the charge of the Light Brigade and Leyte Gulf.

The Valley of the Cheese of the Dead - in this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.

Why Do Pigeons Bob Their Heads?

ICYMI, most recent links are here, and include the physics of juggling, scientists investigating the secrets of smelly cat butts, a 1918 prostate warmer to restore your manly vigor (or radium suppositories if that doesn't work), and the history of toilet paper. 

Friday links

For Dr. Seuss's birthday, his little-known book of nudes: The Seven Lady Godivas (ok for work), plus Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra, and Mel Blanc, and This is Ann... she drinks blood!: Dr Seuss Does Malaria.

D.C. Police Once Gave the President a Speeding Ticket.

A Brief History of Cheese.

On February 29, 1504, Columbus tricked Jamaicans out of supplies using knowledge of an upcoming lunar eclipse.

The Geography of the Odyssey - an interactive map.

The physics of why sparks fly when you microwave grapes.

ICYMI, most recent links are here, and include photos of Victorian women with extremely long hair, a snail slime love spell, and some advice from 1612 on the roasted goat lung method of preventing drunkenness.

Wednesday links

Video: Halloween pumpkin carving tricks and NASA’s Pumpkin Carving Competition.

Why you love cheese – the scientific explanation.

Explaining the significance of the Economic Nobel Prize winners’ work.

Salvador Dali’s Rare Surrealist Cookbook is Being Republished for the First Time in over 40 Years.

Circa 1890, it was pretty easy to end up in an insane asylum.

Will A Chicken That's Fed Lemons Taste Like Lemons?

How Do Water Towers Work?

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include senior moment science, UFO detectors, why people with bigger brains yawn longer, and, from 1930, a set of Information Tests To Try On Your Children.

Friday links

Free-market economist Milton Friedman's birthday is this weekend: some favorite quotes and short videos. And Beatrix Potter's birthday was yesterday: in addition to Peter Rabbit et al, she produced some gorgeous botanical drawings.

Ready for a career change? The Smithsonian is Looking for a Beer Historian.

Scientists think cockroach milk could be the superfood of the future.

Check out this test for eighth graders in Kentucky dated 1912.

Extreme Alpine Soccer Is Played on Impossible Slopes.

What Is American Cheese, Anyway?

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include toasters of the 1920s, the coldest places on earth. how a grizzly bear ended up on California's flag, Aldous Huxley's birthday, and an excellent photoessay of animals at war during World War I.

Monday Links

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879: bio, videos, gravitational waves explained, and the post-mortem saga of his brain.

The curse of the people who can't stop making puns.

Science Says Cheese Is Addictive As Drugs.

3.1416: Happy Pi Day: history, video explanation, and the digits of Pi set to music.

13 Things You May Not Know About Bonnie And Clyde.

Airlander 10: World's largest aircraft prepares to take to the skies (it's 25 per cent larger than a Boeing 747 and designed to remain airborne for up to five days)

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a "best of" Mythbusters supercut, exploding killer lakes, lots of eyebrow interpretation advice from the 16th century, and the (court-ordered) unmasking of the Lone Ranger.

Friday links

Who really owns Antarctica?

100 Skills Every Man Should Know

The Queen that worked at Macy’s.

The mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518.

This French Power Plant Runs on Cheese.

Did Native Americans Bend These Trees to Mark Trails?

ICYMI, Thursday's links are here, and include a "collection" of "unnecessary" quotation marks, Star Wars vehicle cross-sections,  a lost Michelangelo painting found hanging behind a couch in Queens, and what happened when slaves and free men were shipwrecked together.