Taiwan’s Danjiang Bridge is built to survive a magnitude 7 earthquake. It runs across a 920-meter-long span, held by a single concrete mast which rises 200 meters above the estuary.
You don’t breathe, you bubble. Letters written during heatwaves by Jane Austin, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and others.
The White House has launched a new interactive map intended to showcase ICE operations across the United States. It looks exactly like a late-night conspiracy documentary.
Can concrete molds revive coral reefs ruined by bombs and climate change? A conservation group is trying to bring life back to Malaysia’s Coral Triangle. (NYT gift link)
Liminal Assembly shuttles people through decaying suburban shopping malls around the Greater Toronto Area, places that seem stuck in purgatory between eras, at once eerie and beseeching.
Smell-O-Vision A perfumed treatment for depression c1930.
Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from other birds. (read more)
The Sunny Coffee Map: finding sunny Paris terraces in real time.
Current Rothko shows you a Rothko painting selected based on the current weather outside your location. Via TMN
Dognosis: Specially trained dogs detect multiple types of cancer from a single breath, at early stages, for two dollars a test.
Why Costco is so successful: People want someone with the reputation and buying power to bin the obvious garbage before they walk in. They want the kind of constraint that protects them.
Detailed moth photos by Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas
What’s the buzz? A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground.
Sometimes, the best way to explore a landscape is to sit down. Poet, painter and plantsman Bob Dash designed his lovely garden to call visitors to attention and to engage with a view they’d miss if on foot. NYT gift link
People seeking cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations find out that you can’t control everything.
