Trains Need Beauty Sleep Too

The Trains' Bedtimes Map visualizes the moment each part of Europe tucks its railways in for the night.

A Breakdown Of The Bombing Of Nagasaki

On August 9th, 1945 the US dropped a plutonium-fueled atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan. The explosion caused approximately 60,000–80,000 deaths, mainly of civilians, by the end of 1945. Here is a 3D animated breakdown of the bombing:

 

(Memo Of The Air)

Urban Archaeology

 Repair work on  Oval tube station reveals long-hidden decorative details.

Ely Cathedral

Ely Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral founded in 673 in Cambridgeshire, England. It is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details and is a major site of pilgrimage and history. I am always amazed at how such magnificent structures could be built using nothing but strong faith, human strength and primitive tools.

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(Memo Of The Air) 

Manager Needed at Cash Register 1

 

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Toronto’s Winter Stations

Chimera
Denys Horodnyak & Enzo Zak Lux
(Germany & Ukraine)

Winter Stations is an international design competition held annually in Toronto, Canada. Artists, architects, designers, and students are invited to reimagine lifeguard stations as interactive public art installations, transforming city beaches into an open-air exhibition each winter. 

Crest
University of Waterloo
School of Architecture and
the Department of
Architectural Engineering
(Canada)

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You can see it at Woodbine Beach until March 30.

Sunday Links

Alisha & Sirocco — photo courtesy of the Kākāpō Recovery Programme

The Kākāpō (image above) smells like honey and flowers. It’s the only bird in the world known for smelling genuinely, delightfully good. It cannot fly but can climb trees. It is endangered.

Top brands now offering new protein- dense menus (Hilarious)

This mall washroom in Nanjing, China is a total sensory experience. I bet you have never seen such a lavish public bathroom.

A Little Motorcycle Made for Paratroopers 

Terrifying Bike Ride Via Memo Of The Air

An accumulation of pithy aphorisms Now you’re prepared for whatever comes at you.

Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good? Via TMN

Did a winner of the Goncourt Prize steal a woman’s life story? She had confided in her psychiatrist. "I had no filter, no taboos. I told her everything." Her psychiatrist was Kamel Daoud's wife.

What did you do when you were 4 months old?

Dial-A-Poem Persists 

In 1897, Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée led a mission that sought to claim the North Pole for Sweden through “futurist” aerial exploration rather than traditional sledging. His photographs survived. He, alas, did not. Via Memo Of The Air

Shapes of Countries

Forget everything you’ve read about psychopaths. Apparently there are none.

Bastard Chairs An interior design trend for 2026?

Scarecrow of the sky

Music For Sunday Morning

This is lovely. The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, sings Caroline Shaw's And the Swallow

 

Mandolin Orange - Boots of Spanish Leather

Thanks for sending me this song, Marco!

I Went Golfing With Alice Cooper

 My super-talented, longtime blogger buddy Mike Erskine-Kellie made this.