The PX3 State of the World 2020 photo contest winners (You can click on each photo to read more about the subject): https://tinyurl.com/y2d32q73

If you’re feeling extra nerdy, learn about the math and science of shell patterns in the online book “The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells” by Hans Meinhardt. The site may pop up in Italian, but you can choose your preferred language. It’ll also ask you to allow cookies, which is annoying but, eh, every website is doing it: https://tinyurl.com/y4848m64

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanidet: https://tinyurl.com/y3vcdqw3

NASA presents The Sinister Sounds of the Solar System: https://tinyurl.com/yxofk99b

The weird and fascinating phenomenon known as Auto-Activation Deficit leaves people nearly incapable of acting on their own, but fully capable when someone else prompts them to act: https://tinyurl.com/y5l23h9v

In 2005 archaeologists discovered a 30,000 year old burial in Austria containing three infants. Recently, DNA has shown that two of the infants were identical twins: https://tinyurl.com/y3bkpgkp

A beautifully immersive botanical installation by Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger: https://tinyurl.com/y6m5assl

Text-to-speech is a wonderful tool that translates written language into sound for the hearing impaired. It can also make Godzilla movies hilarious: https://tinyurl.com/yyju7nog

Have you ever seen a peatslide? Well, it might be a peatslide, or maybe the Republic of Ireland has figured out an extremely clever way of sneaking into Northern Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/y2caekn7

Gorgeous competitive gardening on wheels!: https://tinyurl.com/y2ovqux7

I’m not entirely sure how it works, but here’s an Apollo guidance computer simulator: https://tinyurl.com/y4ho8yzg

For the jazz fans. Alice Coltrane, also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya Alice Coltrane, was an American jazz musician and composer, and in her later years a swamini: https://tinyurl.com/y5vpsuan

A team of astrophysicists uses AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy: https://tinyurl.com/yyy8d4xt

The striking prints of of the best known and most acclaimed Inuit artists of the last 50 years, Kenojuak Ashevak: https://tinyurl.com/yy277hmw

How conservators treat the 300 year old mattresses of Queen Caroline, wife of King George II: https://tinyurl.com/y2u5otxu

Ada Blackjack was an Inupiaq woman, born in rural Alaska, who survived for two years as a castaway after an ill-fated expedition: https://tinyurl.com/yab5db2j

If you’re a fan of model making, maybe you’ll enjoy watching an architect build a miniature version of the house from the movie Parasite: https://tinyurl.com/yxzrwm6f

Messy Messy Chic introduces us to eight real-life Black princesses: https://tinyurl.com/y4c7wh79

An amazing x-ray skull mural by Shok-1: https://tinyurl.com/y3uzet4m

A look inside Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, a Roman police vault of stolen art: https://tinyurl.com/yxjkdhwj

The science of how red sprites and blue jets form over thunderstorms: https://tinyurl.com/y76kzlyn

The AuthaGraph map is the most accurate world map you’ll ever see: https://tinyurl.com/y32b5w3x

Surreal art diagrams by Minjeong An: https://tinyurl.com/yxrgbukg

Bold and graphic linocut prints by Ieuan Edwards: https://tinyurl.com/y3v5zmlk

Not a pleasant topic at all, but for those interested in forensic reconstructions of disasters, here is an extremely well done breakdown of the tragic and widely televised August 4th explosion in Beirut: https://tinyurl.com/y525jxur

The art and craft of creating that stunning Dior pleating: https://tinyurl.com/y3vbouqr

Major Martin Manhoff spent more than two years in Moscow in the early 1950s as a US army attaché. His post off Red Square gave him an excellent vantage point to capture hundreds of images of everyday life in the U.S.S.R., as well as the only known independent footage of Stalin’s funeral procession: https://tinyurl.com/yagofmw8

We American 80s kids remember the birth of the phenomenon known as the Mall Tour, and how it brought us the wonder that was, and still remains, the one and only Tiffany: https://tinyurl.com/y44hcv9b

Whales are awesome, yes, but they can also kill you very easily without even meaning to: https://tinyurl.com/y3qzkj8q

“We as System Of A Down have just released new music for the first time in 15 years. The time to do this is now, as together, the four of us have something extremely important to say as a unified voice. These two songs, “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz” both speak of a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon our cultural homelands of Artsakh and Armenia”: https://tinyurl.com/yx9rgge6

A mission atop a Hawaiian volcano shows humans still have much to learn before they set foot on another world: https://tinyurl.com/y6rdxlz3

PTSD is not a new thing by any means, as shown by evidence from ancient Mesopotamia: https://tinyurl.com/yxwmv7n5

From pumpkin spice lattes to apple pies, ’tis the season for cinnamon. But, as linguist and historian Andrew Dalby makes clear, our obsession with the flavor today is nothing compared with Europeans’, who centuries ago went to extreme and horrific lengths in search of the spice: https://tinyurl.com/y2z84y8f

Firework cross sections are almost as beautiful as the final product ignited, depending on what you find “beautiful” of course: https://tinyurl.com/y3fo5a3p

Before Terry Gilliam joined the British comedy group Monty Python, he created odd animations for the UK series Do Not Adjust Your Set. Using old photographs and illustrations he also created some of the most memorable moments of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In this video he explains how it was done: https://tinyurl.com/y5hcxgoe

Presenting the Shining Sunbeam Hummingbird. SO SHINY!: https://tinyurl.com/y42m5bsg

The weird and often horrifying randomness of “This Recipe Does Not Exist”: https://tinyurl.com/yxc96fc2

For his short film The Five-Minute Museum (2015), the UK director Paul Bush was given access to objects in some of the premier historical museums of Europe, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Bern Historical Museum in Switzerland. The resulting short video provides a whirlwind survey of human history, from arrowheads to plastic toys (Warning – there’s an almost strobe-like effect in parts of the video that may negatively affect some people): https://tinyurl.com/y3tfyxpf

Delightful and inviting prints by Heather Cox: https://tinyurl.com/y5zkzt2s

If you were just thinking “this year’s Thanksgiving would be WAY better if a I had an absurdly complex and labor-intensive turkey recipe!”, you’re in luck!: https://tinyurl.com/yyryn4t3

The late, great Janis Joplin: https://tinyurl.com/y4q7bw44

The chemistry that’s threatening the murals of Pompeii: https://tinyurl.com/y344fler

The Mahabharata is a tale for our times. The plot of the ancient Indian epic centres around corrupt politics, ill-behaved men and warfare. In this dark tale, things get worse and worse, until an era of unprecedented depravity, the Kali Yuga, dawns. According to the Mahabharata, we’re still living in the horrific Kali era, which will unleash new horrors on us until the world ends: https://tinyurl.com/yyy5dhvk

The encompassing art of sound: https://tinyurl.com/y3pugxfv

This won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this video of various professionals talking about their work with DNA in the field of Archaeology. It reminds me of being back in school when I was working toward my Archaeology degree: https://tinyurl.com/y4qqqtfq

All Things Fall – A hypnotic 3D printed zoetrope by Mat Collishaw: https://tinyurl.com/oau773t

The Forth and Bargy dialect, also known as Yola, is an extinct Anglic language once spoken in the baronies of Forth and Bargy in County Wexford, Ireland. It is thought to have evolved from Middle English, which was brought to Ireland during the Norman invasion, beginning in 1169: https://tinyurl.com/y3q325c5

The Greek, Roman, Irish, Slavic, Baltic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Hindu sky-father gods are (probably) all connected, and descended from an ancient sky-father god worshiped 6000 years ago: https://tinyurl.com/y6p8nwk6

The otherworldly art of Marc Potts (some pieces are mildly NSFW): https://tinyurl.com/y4eog45l

Ah yes, those bygone glory days before building codes existed: https://tinyurl.com/yxr4fp5c

Marzhan Kapsamat plays the dombra in Lake Köbeituz: https://tinyurl.com/yy55p5js

“When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement”: https://tinyurl.com/y5rxp7ss

The Japanese dog that protects humans and bears: https://tinyurl.com/y5kcgynb

Obviously this type of pine needle isn’t available everywhere, but if you live in a region where these trees grow, how about learning to make pine needle baskets in between Zoom meetings. Or during Zoom meetings, since likely as not the meeting could have been an email: https://tinyurl.com/y4zw695e

So…..what IS a hole?: https://tinyurl.com/y535voyj

Counting all the deaths in the Sharknado franchise (Includes gore, obviously): https://tinyurl.com/yyutbjuw

You may have seen the TikTok videos where comedian Christian Hull tries to guess the color of the paint that’s being mixed. Well now you can test your own color-guessing skills with this new video game: https://tinyurl.com/yx97k4b5

“After a prank Facebook event goes viral, thousands flock to the disappearing town of Rachel, Nevada — twenty-seven miles north of Area 51 — seeking knowledge, thrills, and common ground. Against the brutal backdrop of the American desert, hopes, doubts, beliefs, and real experiences are related in testimony from locals and travelers alike”: https://tinyurl.com/y4s9lm4x

Slap-sole shoes were developed in the early 1600’s as a means to protect the shoe from sinking into the ground: https://tinyurl.com/y6ces6uo

“Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You”: https://tinyurl.com/y5cfkutp

The Slow Mo Guys take on pinball machines: https://tinyurl.com/y3v5xhkc

With planning for manned and unmanned missions to the Moon, Mars, and many asteroids underway, engineers are using numerical simulations to understand how spacecraft thrusters interact with planetary surfaces: https://tinyurl.com/y4mgx9v6

Do you love maps full of data you never knew you needed? ENJOY!: https://tinyurl.com/gozb8dt

An appaloosa with “peacock spots”: https://tinyurl.com/y3aqrwou

Turns out that the platypus is one of only three fur-bearing species who exhibit biofluorescence (this link has a cool pic of the glowiness): https://tinyurl.com/yyxxsk4j

The geometry of ballet: https://tinyurl.com/ycb9dlna

The technology that’s replacing the green screen: https://tinyurl.com/y4ew73tv

If you like spooky comics, Dora Mitchell shares her in-progress comic about a youngster in a very strange little town: https://tinyurl.com/y6kprkh5

Take a break and play with this origami simulator (Make sure to try out the options under the “Examples” tab): https://tinyurl.com/yyyd4wun

Dark & dreamy illustrations by Rovina Cai: https://tinyurl.com/y6zag7jc

(Slightly NSFW depending on the workplace) Amazing body painting/SFX art by Amazing Studio JUR: https://tinyurl.com/yxed8h4x

“Free Tibet is at the forefront of a global campaign to save Larung Gar, the largest centre for the study of Tibetan Buddhism anywhere in the world. Thousands of monks and nuns are being forcibly evicted from the site as their homes are demolished behind them”: https://tinyurl.com/y2rek48d

A digital library of cocktail recipes dating from as far back as 1753: https://tinyurl.com/yy2zp92v

An up-close look at the unexpectedly lovely journey of the western toad tadpole: https://tinyurl.com/yyfl87co

The mystery of the “Mostly Harmless” hiker: https://tinyurl.com/y65ywxl7

A new Amazon patent describes a poetic way to deal with toxicity in online games: https://tinyurl.com/y4pgfkbd

The bewitching self portraits of South African artist Zanele Muholi: https://tinyurl.com/y48f6rj9

“In this dazzling short animation by the Brothers Quay, learn about the illusionistic technique known as anamorphosis, in which a hidden image only becomes visible when viewed from a different angle or in a curved mirror”: https://tinyurl.com/y3xzskwj

Breaking down why The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” is so great: https://tinyurl.com/y6okyqjo

The colorful science of jewel beetles: https://tinyurl.com/y2c8np8a

“Artist Roma Durov captures contemporary Russia on a patchwork canvas, depicting the sordid and the silly side-by-side. Otherwise known as 9cyka, Durov paints scenes of police injustice, abuse, and overbearing orthodoxy with the striking naivety of a child sticking out his tongue to those in charge”: https://tinyurl.com/y5e6m5fl

Born in 1973 in Osaka, Tanabe Chiku’unsai is a bamboo artist and craftsman that has been carrying on a family legacy that spans 4 generations: https://tinyurl.com/y398bcxd

“A war pilot crash-lands through his apartment window. When his wife returns from work, she discovers that her husband’s face has been replaced by an airplane turbine. He’s also fallen in love with their kitchen ceiling fan. To save their faltering marriage, his wife decides she will no longer let her humanity get in the way of love”: https://tinyurl.com/y3d8w2vv

After a decade of hair growth, artist Tadas Maksimovas decided to collaborate with violinist Eimantas Belickas to produce an experimental music piece, using a violin strung with his own hair, and it actually sounds pretty good: https://tinyurl.com/yyo8nsr9