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| The Nido de Quetzalcóatl, designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain, in Naucalpan, Mexico.Photographer: Alfredo Estrella/AFP |
A bug’s eye view of Mexico City’s modernist architecture (image above) The city has a trove of unique buildings that you can tour in a vintage Volkswagen Bug.
This is the funnest thing I read this week: “When an article says “some scientists think” remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn’t given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.” Read more via @kottke.org
Does anyone on your Christmas list want/need a John Waters Barf Bag? Via Rusty’s Electric Dreams
Kid not pulling their weight? Jobs for your child
Mysterious late-night visits, an undercover hunt for Hitler’s horses, and a Picasso on the couch are business as usual for art detective Arthur Brand.
The Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree is on its way to London: The annual gift of a Christmas tree from the people of Oslo in Norway to London has continued when the tree was cut down in woods in the northern part of Oslo.
Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud: Fashion designer Bella Freud (Sigmund Freud’s great-granddaughter) invites special guests to 'lie on the couch' and discuss the relationship between fashion, love, identity, culture, anxiety, and politics.
See England and Wales on the Britannic Explorer luxury sleeper train.
Three simple questions form the basis of the “3+30+300 rule” for greener, healthier, more heat tolerant cities. Only Singapore passed the 30% canopy test
Anne of Cleves escaped with her head after the annulment of her marriage to King Henry VIII and amassed a considerable property portfolio as part of her divorce settlement. Her Oxfordshire manor is for sale for £3.75m.
The Cursed Subdivision: When you move into a new home, you anticipate one or two unpleasant surprises. What you don’t expect to deal with are a bunch of corpses in the backyard that hold a grudge against you.
Shane Drinkwater employs stars, circles, and symbols to create a kind of cosmic cartography. via Memo Of The Air
The first virtual meeting was held in 1916 More than a century before Zoom made virtual meetings a pedestrian experience, telephone lines linked auditoriums from coast to coast. via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese
A list of 40 of the safest countries in the world or travel. Canada comes in at a respectable 7th place. Our two North American neighbours, the US and Mexico, did not make the list.
This neuroscientist taught rats to drive and learned something profound from them one morning during the pandemic: Rats have the capacity for joy. A good article via the new shelton wet/dry
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