Sunday Links

More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed  about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. The early history of the Channel Tunnel (image above) 

Check out Nick Walker’s selection of his favourite Tweets of 2023. You’ll be glad you did. (via Webcurios)

At Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Ed Martin III had become accustomed to unusual requests. Then came Patricia Chaarte. Link

Le Défilé des Tardigrades

Le Mans Kitchen is a high end restaurant that is open only to the buyers and customers getting their cars serviced at Sarasota Ford and its head is a Michelin star chef  Read more

Astronaut Alan Bean enjoying weightlessness in the open space of the orbital workshop on the Skylab space station in 1973. Link 

Your napkins need to be folded in a way that suggests you hold a degree in structural engineering. Time traveling through history’s weirdest entertaining advice

Where to get the world’s best service (NYT)

Minimum Wage Clock Damn depressing. (via Things Magazine)

The New York Times has published their travel destinations for 2024 . Yamaguchi and New Zealand by train appeal to me.

Skating in france in 1923 via everlasting blort

Redeployment Part One: This post covers the process for “getting the heck out of Antarctica” after being stationed at McMurdo research facility in the South Pole for 14 months. It’s part one of a multi-part series. via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese

Tattooed Ladies: From the Siberian princess to the American heiress, some remarkable women have had themselves inked for love, art or money

1971: children talking about the Loch Ness monster via everlasting blort 

Many Finnish kitchens have an Astiankuivauskaappi. Why was I not told about this?

Karen Dalton was a blues and folk singer in 1960s New York who discarded the traditional trappings of success. I finally got around to watching In My Own Time, a 2020 documentary about her hard life and her untimely death. (The TVO link might not work in your location but the doc is available on various streaming services.)

Give the Quilt Bot an image and they will convert it into a quilt pattern.

Scientists played music to cheese as it aged. Unsurprisingly hip-hop produced the funkiest flavour.

Novelist Lauren Groff’s new independent bookstore, The Lynx, will feature banned books, an act of resistance in Florida where more than half of school districts have seen book banning activity. (Literary Hub)

 

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I’ll leave you with this: Asian black bears chillin’