Sunday Links

Photography by Piotr Krajewski

The House in the Slope shows how architecture can disappear in plain sight by embedding itself into the terrain, aligning with natural contours, and preserving the wild character of the land. (image above) 

An inventory of desire, guilt, and German efficiency, typed and timestamped like war correspondence. A man meticulously documented his sordid affair with his secretary in 1969 (via Memo Of The Air)

To what medical uses did medieval practitioners put dove faeces, fox lungs, salted owl or eel grease? Medieval Medical Recipes Via Web Curios

Beware of Mister Fog

Watching the world in a dark room: Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. 

Little Caesars They’re always hot and ready.

Bottomless Coriander Tin I suspect Mrs. J. Tidmarsh of trying to drive her husband mad.

Ozempic Face:  “Although they felt much better losing weight, in some ways they felt they looked older. And this was due to the loss of volume in their face.” Via the new shelton wet/dry

This looks like a great site for those of you who sew (I was going to call you sewers but that looks like a place where rats dwell): Free bespoke sewing patterns Via Web Curios

Undergarments

The Soiled Dove Plea  If I were ever charged with prostitution I hope I could find an attorney as skilled as Attorney Temple Lea Houston to defend me.

It helps to know your fonts: In 2017, the daughter of the Pakistani Prime Minister was caught in a corruption scandal after submitting trust deeds allegedly written in 2006. Unfortunately for her the deeds were written using the Calibri font, which wasn’t widely available until 2007. (Quite Interesting)

This season in the US, 90% of pediatric deaths from flu occurred in children who were not fully vaccinated against influenza. (TMN)

To The Man Who Killed My Dog  In 1955 this letter was printed on the front page of the local newspaper; before long, it had been reprinted across the country and even inspired a book.

I learned something new today: Peacock feathers can be lasers  Via PfRC

Mary had schizophrenia- then suddenly she didn’t: what happens to the newly sane? Via Memo Of The Air

A found note

Japandi House is a calm, light-filled home designed by Yulia Barshevskaya. It is the house I desire at my stage of life, small, stylish and uncluttered.

European songbird has its own version of heading to splitsville. NPR

From a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written after 9-11