Music For Sunday Morning

Turnpike Troubadours (feat. Sierra Hull)

 

Via Duck Soup

Sunday Links

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has announced that Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (above) will open its doors on December 11, 2026. It was designed by the late Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Frank Gehry. It joins a growing community of museums and cultural institutions in Saadiyat Cultural District, including Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum, Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, and teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, positioning the district as one of the world’s most significant concentrations of cultural institutions. (Read More)

You never know when this elemental chart might come in handy: Can I Lick It? Via Memo Of The Air

Neil was born on the Tasman Peninsula in 2020 and has been returning to the region to moult and rest ever since. Managing his twice-yearly visits is costing tens of thousands of dollars. Link 

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people (including children) never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. Link

Do you remember Blockbuster video stores? Bingebuster is kind of like that only you don’t have to drag your ass off the sofa and drive there. (Via Webcurios)

The Four Rarest Trees in the World

I’ve always wanted to visit Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Seeing the The Magdalen House by Atelier L’Abri has rekindled my interest.

A quiz to decide if each email address is valid or not!  (Mefi)

The Lightfoot is a cute little sunpowered cargo scooter.

Thijs de Buck, an MRI physicist in the Netherlands, built a speed and distance tracker for his hamster’s wheel, to log Mollie’s nightly runs with distance, pace, and time. 

Europa or Frying Pan? Via Memo Of the Air

A vagrant bunting charmed Shanghai before flying into a glass wall, igniting debate over how urban greening efforts can prevent fatal bird-window collisions. Link

The Danube River has fallen to record-low water levels, revealing nazi warships, bombs and woolly mammoth bones in its channel.

DNA traces in the Shroud of Turin reveal a remarkable mixture of human lineages, microbes, plants, animals, and coral accumulated through centuries of handling and travel. Link

A vomiting shark nearly took down a Sydney drug ring in 1935. Read more

Hannibaby's Alpine Invasion Follow puppeteer Sebastian Mayer and his toddler as they invade Italy via Hannibal’s 218BC route through the Alps on a war elephant puppet that he made.  (Thanks Alan)

So, let’s say that you, being the genius that you are, have solved the physics problems of traveling through time. You have invented and built a time machine and are eager to use it. Sounds great, yes? No You Don’t Want to Time Travel (Via Webcurios)

Combat adulthood ennui with a casual midnight omelette party for 47? Just thinking about doing this terrifies me. Link

Scientists made sourdough bread with yeast found on Ötzi the Iceman’s mummified body. Yuck

Sierra Ferrell

Seeing Sierra Ferrell perform live might not be #1 on my Things I Want to Do Before I Die list but it's right up there. She is the embodiment of whimsical hillbilly gothic. She’s on tour right now.

I posted her performance with Shakey Graves at Red Rocks awhile back and it’s probably my favourite. See it here.

The Last Ice Age

From Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Emergence Magazine presents “The Last Ice Age.”

“ On a journey retracing his grandparents’ annual spring pilgrimage to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, Andri searches for the stories that lie at the edges of our climate crisis in both scientific data and his family’s memories.”

 

 

(Aeon Films)

Does this look like fun to you?

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I Hate It When My Sofa Does This

 

This stop motion nightmare shows a monster sofa devouring its victim, one frame at a time. Pure practical horror.

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— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) August 6, 2026 at 9:41 AM

Valencia Hyperlapse

“To capture all these spots, I relied on my folding bike, which I always carry in the trunk of my car. Valencia, with its incredible network of bike lanes, was an absolute dream to explore this way, allowing me to move quickly between locations to chase the perfect light.” - Kirill Neiezhmakov

(Kuriositas)

Moth Man

Artist Posit Pixel animated what a human would look like with moth anatomy.

 

(Laughing Squid)

A Very Good Boy

First responders in Southern California needed to land an emergency helicopter, but there was a herd of goats standing in the landing area.The herd’s Great Pyrenees went to work. The dog quickly rounded up the goats and moved them away, clearing enough space for the helicopter to safely land.

The goats are part of Laguna Beach’s wildfire-prevention program. They graze on dry brush and other vegetation to create fuel breaks that can help slow the spread of wildfires.

Hiroshima Shadow

On this day in 1945 a customer was sitting on the steps of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima, likely waiting for the branch to open, when the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded over the city. The intense heat burned the stone building white. The customer’s body shielded one section of the steps, leaving a “shadow”visible as a darkened area.

Photograph by Yoshito Matsushige. A journalist's legs were included to provide context to the scene.

Throughout the center of Hiroshima were a myriad of haunting outlines from window panes, valves, and even people in their last seconds. Etched on buildings and sidewalks now were the nuclear shadows of a city about to be obliterated.

This is perhaps the most famous of the Hiroshima shadows. It is one of the most complete impressions left behind by the blast, and remained in place for over 20 years before it was removed and taken to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is known as Human Shadow of Death or the Blast Shadow

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(Previously posted here in 2020)