Sunday Links

Image: Drone photographer Tyler Lekki

Three Decades of Dreaming  Colin Haley did the first solo winter ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia. His story is awesome. The image above shows how infinitesimally small we are in the scale of nature. He looks like an ant.

Have you ever used any of these insults? I guess my semi-regular use of cad, rascal, scamp, scoundrel and skinflint date me.

War mittens

Sunshine Atlas tells you how sunny the world’s cities are. I don’t know about you but I’m already sick of waking up in darkness and not knowing if it’s 1am and I need to go back to sleep or 6am and time to feed the cat. I’m craving daylight and it’s only November 13. Via Web Curios

Solving the Feynman restaurant problem, i.e. how many dishes should you sample at a restaurant to find your favourite one?

Localpedia Landmarks for things a half hour from you.

Vote George Wallace For Alabama Governor - A pro segregation comic book from 1960.

This collapsible chessboard requires 325 individual precision crafted parts to keep it from jamming.

Salmon Creek Farm's founder, the architecture-trained artist Fritz Haeg, opens the doors to his cultural commune. Via Memo Of The Air

The Berluti knot: a shoelace knot that stays tied

Trailer: Set in the feline-run underbelly of Venice, Italy, Gatto releases exclusively in theaters March 5, 2027.

NASA’ s CHAPEA Mars crew emerges after more than a year in isolation preparing humans for the Moon and Mars.

Is your girlfriend a spy?

My friend wrote this story: The Harm Reduction Centre Ladies Auxiliary 

A visit to the local bathhouse Via Web Curios

100 scientists were asked about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations. NYT gift link

Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should.

Music For Sunday Morning

girlsweetvoiced - tonight

Happy Caturday

 Via

Sicily and the Family Tree of Citrus

I loved this post about Sicily and the Family Tree of Citrus. Long ago I watched a show about Anthony Bourdain in Sicily. I was so taken with it that I immediately booked a flight to Rome with a connection to the night train to Palermo. I awoke in the morning to the train rolling onto the ferry to cross the Strait of Messina. As soon as the train disembarked I could see and smell the iconic Limone Interdonato Messina PGI, an heirloom variety created in the 1860s by Garibaldi's colonel, Giovanni Interdonato. Passing through the fragrant orchards is one of my fondest memories.

Techno Marching Band

German techno marching band MEUTE  have recently released a new album and are touring again. “They seek to create a new genre by combining hypnotic driving techno and expressive brass band music, thereby detaching electronic music from the DJ desk."

Via perfect for roquefort cheese

Bungee For Biscuits

 

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Chivichanas

Cuban children throw safety to the wind as they hurtle down the street of Havana on  chivichanas, the homemade skateboards of Cuba.

Via Aeon Videos

Did It Contain Too Much Sugar?

Wedding Cake, a sculptural pavilion designed by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos as a permanent garden pavilion for the grounds of Waddesdon Manor is being dismantled due to health and safety concerns.

The Shining Moon Pot

Artist Daniel Young Kim of Portland’s gldnmnky created this limited-edition Delftware vessel inspired by Kubrick’s The Shining.

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Via The Awesomer

Baboons Jumping To Safety

When members of a baboon troop are trapped in their roosting tree by rising flood waters they must take a death-defying leap.

Via Kraftfuttermischwerk