Tuesday links

It's V.E. Day: on May 8, 1945, World War 2 ended in Europe.

Coming clean: the physics of doing laundry.

How bacteria communicate in groups to avoid antibiotics.

Just so you know, there are Poop-Filled Mites On Your Face Right Now.

The Last Stagecoach Tavern of the Wild Wild West.

Not a plot summary for a SyFy movie: Army researchers are developing a self-aware squid-like robot you can 3D print in the field.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include how donuts are made, daggers made from human thigh bones, Neanderthals sea voyages, and illustrated manliness lessons: how to undress in 20 seconds or less (in case you need to rescue someone who's drowning) and the Tactical Order of Dressing (as taught to military and emergency personnel).

Just so you know, there are Poop-Filled Mites On Your Face Right Now

Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face. They're not actually pooping, per se, because of the fact that they the lack anuses:

"They store all of their poop in their abdomens until the day they die, at which point they decompose and leak feces all over your face."

More at the video below, made by Gross Science:

Related:

Are mites having sex on your face?

Everything you never wanted to know about the mites that eat, crawl, and have sex on your face.

Animated close-up view of the world at the bottom of the carpet - the world of dust mites.

NatGeo has a gallery of extreme close-ups of mites.

By the way, you can buy a container of 1,000 live predatory mites here - makes a great gift!

H/T Mental Floss

Wednesday links

Don Featherstone, creator of the plastic pink flamingo, died yesterday. He and his wife wore matching outfits every day for 37 years. Kind of related: Why Flamingos Succeed at Escaping the Zoo While All Other Animals Fail.

To Gaze into the Jaws Of Camel Spiders Is to Gaze into the Jaws of Hell.

Fridgehenge: to celebrate the solstice, British guy recreates Stonehenge using old refrigerators.  

Just so you know, there are poop-filled mites on your face right now.

How Many iPhones Does It Take to Stop a Round From an AK-47?

10 Enormous Foods That Have Shattered World Records.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include Victorian fairy tale art, heroic librarians, and Father's Day lessons from Homer Simpson, Walter White, Don Draper, and Tywin Lannister,