Sunday Links

Venice Underwater: The Highest Tide in 50 Years Venice is a magical city. These photographs are heart wrenching. Via

What Not To Do the First Day in Prison

Gastro Obscura: How grilled ape, braised bear paw, and steamed camel hump came to symbolize national unity.

Cinder Gets Fit  A YouTube channel for chubby kitties.

Previewing Expo 2020 Dubai 

‘Runaway Train’ Video Helped Find Missing Kids 25 Years Ago 

Depressed Guy Adopts A Cat, Illustrates The Ways It Has Helped Him 

Thread, Fashion and Costume: Darrell Thorne creates larger than life personas using a combination of body paint and headpieces.

A Time Travelling Greenwich Village Studio Hides an Incredible Art Collection

Robert Falcon Scott’s final letters  Read the full diary online courtesy of the British Library, where it now resides. Via 

Space Face 

North Dakota’s Fargo Brewing Company has put pictures of adoptable dogs on its beer cans. Who could resist?

Deserted Iranian Homes Reclaimed by Nature 

Now available to rent: Original Home of Billy and Ruth Graham in Montreat, NC No thanks.

Amazing Aerial Shots Of London From A Helicopter London looks great from any angle.

These Canine Playing Cards Have The Most Brilliant Illustrations

The Internet Archive is Digitizing LPs to Preserve Generations of Audio  The Internet Archive is working with the Boston Public Library to digitize more than 100,000 audio recordings from their sound collection.

 How To Make An Earthquake Early Warning System With Cats Via Miss C

The Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library holds a variety of early plastic objects made of celluloid, thermoset plastics such as Bakelite and Catalin, as well as plastics made popular after WWII. Take a look.

The Mitosaya Botanical Distillery in Chiba houses over 500 different varieties of herbs

Mouse-Deer 

Human hair behind pigeons' lost toes