Sunday Links

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has announced that Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (above) will open its doors on December 11, 2026. It was designed by the late Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Frank Gehry. It joins a growing community of museums and cultural institutions in Saadiyat Cultural District, including Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum, Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, and teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, positioning the district as one of the world’s most significant concentrations of cultural institutions. (Read More)

You never know when this elemental chart might come in handy: Can I Lick It? Via Memo Of The Air

Neil was born on the Tasman Peninsula in 2020 and has been returning to the region to moult and rest ever since. Managing his twice-yearly visits is costing tens of thousands of dollars. Link 

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people (including children) never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. Link

Do you remember Blockbuster video stores? Bingebuster is kind of like that only you don’t have to drag your ass off the sofa and drive there. (Via Webcurios)

The Four Rarest Trees in the World

I’ve always wanted to visit Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Seeing the The Magdalen House by Atelier L’Abri has rekindled my interest.

A quiz to decide if each email address is valid or not!  (Mefi)

The Lightfoot is a cute little sunpowered cargo scooter.

Thijs de Buck, an MRI physicist in the Netherlands, built a speed and distance tracker for his hamster’s wheel, to log Mollie’s nightly runs with distance, pace, and time. 

Europa or Frying Pan? Via Memo Of the Air

A vagrant bunting charmed Shanghai before flying into a glass wall, igniting debate over how urban greening efforts can prevent fatal bird-window collisions. Link

The Danube River has fallen to record-low water levels, revealing nazi warships, bombs and woolly mammoth bones in its channel.

DNA traces in the Shroud of Turin reveal a remarkable mixture of human lineages, microbes, plants, animals, and coral accumulated through centuries of handling and travel. Link

A vomiting shark nearly took down a Sydney drug ring in 1935. Read more

Hannibaby's Alpine Invasion Follow puppeteer Sebastian Mayer and his toddler as they invade Italy via Hannibal’s 218BC route through the Alps on a war elephant puppet that he made.  (Thanks Alan)

So, let’s say that you, being the genius that you are, have solved the physics problems of traveling through time. You have invented and built a time machine and are eager to use it. Sounds great, yes? No You Don’t Want to Time Travel (Via Webcurios)

Combat adulthood ennui with a casual midnight omelette party for 47? Just thinking about doing this terrifies me. Link

Scientists made sourdough bread with yeast found on Ötzi the Iceman’s mummified body. Yuck