O ̊˚C (image above) is a creative collaboration between artist Tharien Smith and photographer Bruce Boyd, featuring unique images of flowers, fynbos and found objects encapsulated in ice.
'Very wretched indeed': Horrible historical reviews of Scottish cities – a quiz I'm in Edinburgh right now and am finding it very pleasant indeed.
Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death Something I didn't really need to know.
19 Tiny Dudes in Tuxedos Play Beethoven’s Fur Elise on a grand piano.
Enjoy the sounds of natural rainfall and city ambience on an evening walk in midtown New York City in the rain.Via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk
The Building of the World Trade Center Restaurant Windows on the World : How legendary restaurateur Joe Baum created Windows on the World atop the World Trade Center. Good story. Thanks Bruce!
Ekbom Syndrome aka delusional parasitosis
Told you I am not at all interested in all that food. Via Miss C
French 75 Cocktail Recipe
Bacardi wants to turn plastic straws into vinyl records
Literary Paper Dolls
Futility Closet: According to local folklore, the village of Nigg, Scotland vanquished cholera in a singularly direct way.
Very cool: Porcelain figurines are dropped on the ground, and the sound they make when they hit trips the shutter release. Via Blort
An interesting story of a small hidden community of Japanese who were living on the margins of Vancouver.
Vintage decorating tips Thanks Bruce!
He made this town the world's 'sex-change capital,' but he's not honored here
Music to Get Lost to: Songs About Maps
Art Trips: Visit the Art of Cities Around the World, from Los Angeles and London, to Venice and New York
"I wish I were a dog, so you could photograph me." Vincent J. Musi's photographs. Via
Roadside America Via
First Sight: In 1728 English surgeon William Cheselden removed the cataracts from a 13-year-old boy, producing the first known case of full recovery from blindness. I cringe imagining this surgery without anesthetic.
Mapping the Monsters of a Northern Irish Childhood : Growing up amid the political conflict in Northern Ireland, a 16th-century map that blended real and mythical monsters spoke to my fears and fascinations.
Seventy years of highs and lows in the history of machine learning
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