Sunday Links

IKEA has designed six playhouses that can be built with its products to entertain children in coronavirus lockdown (above).

The Largest and Most Detailed Photograph of Rembrandt's The Night Watch Is Now Online

Coronavirus and Antarctica: It's cut off from the rest of the world and there's not been a single case of coronavirus. Why are the research teams at Antarctica following isolation rules?

I Scream, You Scream: Shanghai’s Weirdest Ice Cream: Chocolate. Durian. Scallion pancake. Crab roe.

Sea Song: Absolutely breathtaking architecture in Big Sur Via Things

"C'etait un rendezvous"  Director Claude Lelouch shot this 8 minute drive through Paris in one take.

The Pearl Of The Desert  Ghadamès is a pre-Roman oasis town on the caravan routes across the Sahara and an excellent example of "desert urbanism."

People in Gaza are ordering KFC on Instagram — but it takes at least 24 hours and it's cold Thanks Bruce!

Stonehenge will livestream this year's summer solstice for first time

 Kristen Wiig reads the poetry of Suzanne Somers.

Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. Here's the trailer

The Spaces: The modernist Los Angeles duplex home of architects Quincy Jones and Ruth Schneider is for rent in Laurel Canyon. It's beautiful.

Rosecrans Baldwin's Meditations in an Emergency is a newsletter of short weekly essays about beautiful things.

13 best noir films One of my favourite genres.

Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea Victor Vescovo, became the first living creature with blood and bones to reach the deepest point in the Tonga Trench.Great story. Thanks Bruce!

You can visit the Parliament of Canada online, thanks to a new co-production between the Library of Parliament and the NFB.

Stunning high-speed water drop photography by Heinz Maier Via Book Of Joe

The Church Forests of Ethiopia(video) : Nearly all of Ethiopia’s original trees have disappeared, but small pockets of old-growth forest still surround Ethiopia’s churches, living arks of biodiversity amongst the brown grazing fields.

Inside Jayne Mansfield's "Pink Palace," the Graceland of Hollywood

Bill Murray and Guy Fieri show Jimmy Fallon how to make nachos 

The Great Wave: spot the difference: You may not know that there are many impressions of Hokusai Katsushika's Great Wave, and there isn’t one ‘definitive’ version. (The British Museum has three)

Masa, the country’s most expensive restaurant, delivers an $800 takeout box, which does not include instructions. Here’s what it looks like. Thanks Bruce!

From Rome, With Birds ...

The Tiny Island Housing London’s Last ‘Coronavirus-Free’ Community (They want you to stay home)

The Montauk Project: The conspiracy theory that inspired ‘Stranger Things’

 Simple Lemon Pie adapted from the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill’s recipe.

Visualizing the length of the fine print for 14 popular apps