Sunday Links

Kinrai ryūkō kabuki uwasa Kenbutsu no hara
Internal bodily functions dramatized by popular kabuki actors

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) holds a collection of 400 health-themed woodblock prints from 19th-century Japan, all illustrated in the ukiyo-e manner. (image above)

Weird and wonderful Leon Redbone always had a Polaroid camera onstage and took a photo of the audience at every show. Mr. Nag and I were fans and I wouldn't be surprised to see us in one of the early Toronto photos. (via Everlasting Blort)

This week's house envy is a light-filled home with a view in a picturesque town in Kent, England

João Carlos Martins couldn’t play piano anymore until magic (bionic) gloves. (Thanks Bruce)

She died as she lived

A Puff Before Dying: When marionettes mix with marijuana, a joy ride becomes their last ride. (Language warning!) 

A Tokyo bookstore consisting of a single room selling one book

Start planning a Halloween vacation for next year: 13 Haunted Hotels  

I adore The Noordwijk Forest Villa. I'd like to buy a treed lot and build it right now!

Mindbending Lego Sculpture

The story behind Robert the Doll, Key West’s most cursed object.

Bookniture

California Condors reproduce without a male. A first.

Tin tabernacle

Inside the room it’s so silent that the background noise measured is actually negative decibels.

The Tarim Basin mummies are immaculately preserved, well-dressed, and buried in boats. read more

Pablo Picasso Posing With His Beloved Dogs

“The worst spy cop movie I’ve ever seen” How British police tried to recruit an informant in Black Lives Matter 

Air travel sucks. I am a small and relatively agile person and I find it awkward getting in and out of airplane seats. It is so much more difficult for people who rely on a wheelchair. This seating that allows air travellers to stay in their wheelchairs facilitates a smoother boarding and disembarking experience for passengers with reduced mobility.

These are the tiniest crochet pieces I've ever seen. I can't imagine having this kind of manual dexterity.