Nag on the Lake

Sunday, March 02, 2025

Sunday Links

A reconstruction of the Frankfurt Kitchen in Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts. Christos Vittoratos

The Feminist Resistance Fighter Who Created the Modern Kitchen “She didn’t just develop a kitchen. It was a concept to make women’s lives easier by giving them a kitchen where they could manage more easily and have more time for themselves.

Whale Songs Whales communicate with a 'language-like' structure similar to humans.

Am I a Joke to You?

“Replying at Random.” A growing number of young Chinese are adopting a clever strategy for dealing with uncomfortable questions. Via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese

Henry became a father for the first time at 111 years old

Spawn Of 'Cheddar Man' The Mesolithic skeleton known as 'Cheddar Man' shares the same DNA with a British history teacher.

A sad story: What do you do after you accidentally kill a child? Via Kottke

Concrete toboggan racing is real

Trump Administration Litigation Tracker follows legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them.

Mice seen giving 'first aid' to unconscious companions

“There seems to be no crime too low for these Penguins” Notes on the Sexual Habits of the 'Astonishingly Depraved' Adélie Penguin

The Best and Worst Rated Countries in the World

In 1974, a musician, John Graham Mellor, moved into a Maida Vale squat, and 50 years later, the local council unveiled a commemorative stone to celebrate the man — if you can find it. The hunt for Joe Strummer’s legacy stone

European word translator

You come home after a long night and just want to go to sleep but there’s a stranger in your bed. (Kraftfuttermischwerk)

Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. In this podcast she covers Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope. Terry inspired a national movement to end cancer and is one of Canada’s heroes. We are so proud of him.

Apple Pledges to Fix Transcription Glitch That Replaces Racist With Trump

I want to do this: How to befriend a crow.

From biases about the nature of peer review to bogus science discrediting water fluoridation and vaccines, many sources of misinformation threaten to derail our progress. Fight back with correct information. 7 anti-science myths that threaten modern-day society Via Miss Cellania

Music For Sunday Morning

Concern - William Tyler

Saturday, March 01, 2025

Hedgehog’s Home

Created by animator and director Eva Cvijanović, this stop-motion short is based on a poem by Branko Ćopić, a beloved writer from the former Yugoslavia.

via Moss and Fog

A Blast From The Past

Here we are now, entertain us.

Mr. Nag was cleaning out a filing cabinet and found a school project my younger son did in elementary school. It was a biography and was cute as can be. In it we found this picture of him and his older brother taken during the height of grunge. They are wearing the de rigueur flannel shirts and expressions of apathy. (Photo taken c 1993)