Sunday Links

Beautiful  photos of Rome covered in snow in 1985 (image above)

This Pacific Northwest home has sweeping views and is integrated seamlessly into the natural environment. I want to live there.

Plastic is made from petroleum, and petroleum burns fast and hot. A retired Maryland state fire marshal told Newsweek that, from a fire perspective, a typical couch is akin to a block of gasoline... 

When she looks through your phone and all she finds is...

In early 1962, 13-year-old Mary Lou Reitler wrote to President Kennedy, questioning the morality of spending billions on space exploration while people on Earth faced hunger and hardship. Read her letter and the reply here

 Pink sinks resurrected for the 21st century

Temporal Discombobulator The current time in Morse code via PfRC

Witnessing America and ourselves as Trump takes office: Frederick Joseph, a Black writer born and raised in the USA, writes about his post-2024-election trip across the country on the Amtrak Zephyr. (Metafilter)

 Felix shows up for his daily meal at 22:40. There’d better be sausage.

The 2025 World Monument Watch list features a non-terrestrial site for the first time. 

This prefab retreat atop an Icelandic fjord looks like a nice place to spend some downtime and the perfect spot from which to view the northern lights ($530K)

A snowboarding crow!

In his artwork View Suspended II Dutch artist Paul Veroude deconstructs the racing chassis of a Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Racing Car and suspends its 3,200 components individually by wire from a purpose-built frame.

 CBS News Team Breaks Into House to Rescue Three Dogs Trapped Inside During the Palisades Fire

“Sugarcane,” a documentary that explores Canada’s dark history of assimilating Indigenous students at residential schools, was nominated for an Oscar.

In the 1970s, Martha Goddard invented the rape kit. She transformed forensics  so why did she die in relative obscurity? via Miss Cellania