Wednesday links

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel was born on November 15, 1891.

When The Photographer Asks You to Look Seductive…

Your house is a gigantic bug habitat, and there's nothing you can do about it.

A Scientific Look at How Female Turkeys Choose Their Mates (and how they avoid the rejects).

Death Rays: The X-Ray Murder Trial That Made International News.

Is a Cat a Liquid? A 2017 Ig Nobel Prize winner explains his work.

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include making a 10-year malt whisky in weeks, self-help lessons from Napoleon Bonaparte, and some of the best newspaper corrections ever.

Monday links

Video: BBC's documentary "Bat-Crocodile War", if the bats had bombs and the crocs had light sabers. 

The surprisingly interesting history of Pyrex.

As a recruiting tool, the U.S. Navy built a battleship in New York City's Union Square. It was there from 1917-1920.

Watch a video of a 57-story modular skyscraper go up in 19 days.

The chicken tax: why there are so few (relatively speaking) imported trucks in the U.S.

Top 10 Terrifying Prehistoric Sea Monsters.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include a newly found photo of Vincent Van Gogh from 1887, a re-creation of how the Romans lifted wild animals into the Colosseum, and using lasers to burn away mental illness.