Sunday Links

Tal Shochat, “Rimon (Pomegranate)” (2011)

Into the Woods: Trees in Photography I saw this show when I was in London last month. Lovely!

Observations of a wingless Bumblebee Queen Via

The Fontange was the hipster of 1700s hair Every Day Was Wacky Hair Day In The 1700s

"Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realizing it " Yikes!

I love these Flat-Pack Prefab Summerhouses from Sweden 

David Attenborough’s Light on Earth a doc about Earth’s most otherworldly wonder: bioluminescence.

How the American dream has changed over time A Photographer Recreated These Family Photos 20 Years Later

If you’ve got it, flaw-nt it Sheets of parchment were time-consuming and expensive to produce, so some scribes embraced the flaws they found, with creative results.

What do you say when you don’t know what to say? A Gentleman’s Guide to Offering Condolences  Via

In a Parisian Cemetery, a Lovely Brancusi Has Vanished in Plain Sight

A lovely collection of Dreamy Vintage European Stamps by Illustrator Diana Sudyka

The Woman Making Art out of the FBI's Surveillance of Her Black Panther Father

Lovely surfing video from Java Enjoy!

The Round Reading Room at the British Museum Archivist Francesca Hillier takes a look at the iconic Round Reading Room at the centre of the Bloomsbury building.

The Artist of Death  Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch was known for his remarkable ‘still life’ displays which blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art.

Full steam ahead at the Indian train station run only by women

I've spent a lot of time in the City Of Light over the years and this looks like good advice for a Paris visit  Via

Best universal wine glasses according to sommeliers and beverage directors.

It is not earthquakes or tsunami that are to blame for the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, but humans. Writing and imagery by ARKADIUSZ PODNIESIŃSKI

Attention all Bond villains searching for that perfect evil lair: Luxury hotel being built in abandoned quarry in Shanghai shows off swanky sample rooms Via

The Exoneration of 6 Indigenous Canadian Chiefs, Wrongfully Executed in 1864 Thanks Bruce!

The World's Smallest Publishing House: A Typewriter in a Bookstore 

The Amazing Metabolism of Hummingbirds Sometimes they are so lean that they live close to caloric bankruptcy.

Prettiest Cafes in London Treves and Hyde Cafe (#6) is in the hotel we stay at when we're in London.