Sunday, November 03, 2024

Sunday Links


Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (image above) A recreation of the original 1821 colour guidebook by Nicholas Rougeux (via everlasting blort)


How To Hibernate Is anyone else ready to burrow under the covers until April?


For any American friends who might be considering a move north in the near future: How to Move to Canada


Dora Maar: A Surrealist Soul She was made famous as "The Weeping Woman", the subject of a sequence of paintings by Picasso that immortalised her in her feminine fragility. But her story was much more than this.


National Geographic's Top Travel Destinations and Adventures for 2025 Trekking the Stockholm Archipelago Trail has been on my to-do list for at least a decade.


If you think you can hold a grudge, consider the crow. When a murder of crows singles out a person as dangerous, its wrath can be alarming, and can be passed along beyond an individual crow’s life span of up to a dozen or so years, creating multigenerational grudges. (NYT gift link)


This is a fabulous house: For Sale: Avenue Road, Stratford-upon-Avon. Alas a trans-Atlantic move is not in the cards for me.


Hieroglyphic Lioconcha is a species of saltwater clam that is distinguished by its intricate patterns on the shell that resemble ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Link


Olive “It is only after you make your differences known that people may place you in a different box. Even still that comes with privilege.” 


Think you can beat misinformation? Try this comprehensive test of misinformation susceptibility.

Cake Picnic’s tagline also functions as its cardinal rule: No cake, no entry. (The photos look yummy.)

The strange history of the Philpot Lane mice (It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not)

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