Wednesday links

Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215: history, quotes, Horrible Histories and Monty Python explanations. Related, Mark Steyn's The Field Where Liberty Was Sown, on re-learning those lessons.

The Incredibly Weird Story Behind Tetris.

Wife Tries to Poison Husband Through His Underwear.

Ulysses fan, or just a fan of hanging out in an Irish pub? June 16 is Bloomsday - here's my favorite quote from Joyce's obscenity trial:

“[i]n respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.”

What Species Would Become Dominant On Earth If Humans Died Out?

Wedding Night Games Are Awkward All Around the World.

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include Flag Day and the birthday of the U.S. Army, exoskeletons for the elderly, how donating your body to science works, and macaroni and cheese summer cocktails.

Oregon Trail for Adults (safe for work)

Oregon Trail (wiki) was designed as an educational kids’ game, and a generation of students learned about the settling of the U.S. by playing it. There were many ways to die, but it was still rated for general audiences, meaning kids. There was a lot of not-so-pleasant parts of life on the trail that were completely left out,

A list of resources for further reading can be found at Vox. 

You can play Oregon Trail (the original version) in your browser, along with Ms. Pac-Man, Tetris, Donkey Kong, and Mega Man - more links to old games here and here.

via Neatorama.

Friday links

Fashion Advice from a 1980s Stasi (East German secret police) disguise seminar..

Is Margarine Dead?

Snacks and serendipity: How the microwave was invented by accident.

This is very cool to watch: The Chemistry of Matches, in Super Slow Motion.

13 classic video games you can play right now in your web browser.

The next generation of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is here, and it's approaching Terminator Genisys-like appearance.

ICYMI, Thursday's links are here, and include calculating how long would it take for a single person to fill up an entire swimming pool with their own saliva, real-life technologies inspired by video games, a human-sounding Dorito-eating goat (with bonus goat-related links), and 10 of history's most famous prostitutes.

Thursday links

Watch (and listen to) this goat eating Doritos, with bonus goat links.

How long would it take for a single person to fill up an entire swimming pool with their own saliva?

10 Real-Life Technologies Inspired By Video Games

Finalists from Smithsonian’s Annual Photo Contest - and you can vote for the Readers Choice awards.

How Many Nobel Prizes Could Sir Isaac Newton Win?

10 of History's Most Famous Prostitutes.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include a video tour of the Museum of Bad Art, the unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night", $8.4 million for Michelangelo’s Tuscan villa, how not to get killed by a cow (and the Brit farmer who turned Nazi super cows into sausage because they were too aggressive, and Picasso’s self portraits from age 15 to age 90.