Tree.fm lets you listen to the natural sounds of forests around the world. (I actually couldn’t get any sound when I tried this website on my desktop, but it works fine on my phone): https://www.tree.fm/

The Striated Frogfish might look shaggy and……kind of cute? But don’t be fooled, these fish are voracious predators that can swallow prey as large as themselves: https://tinyurl.com/y9mx3y8p

Larry Callies comes from a long line of black cowboys living and working on the frontier: https://tinyurl.com/yc2rbzag

Ever found yourself sitting around thinking, “I wonder if spotted hyenas fart”? Well wonder no more!: https://tinyurl.com/y9w56zm8

“Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you John Carpenter’s The Thing, as performed by the claymated, Antarctic cast of the hit children’s animation Pingu. Directed by Lee Hardcastle, in under 3 minutes.”: https://tinyurl.com/y9wc8wng

(FYI, the videos have closed captioning available for English, Spanish, and French speakers) “Created by Gabriela Badillo, the exciting series of animated short films “68 Voices, 68 Hearts” (68 voces, 68 hearts) retells indigenous tales narrated in their native tongues. Created in 2013 under the premise that no one can love that which they do not know, this series has produced 36 short films so far, with the goal to cover Mexico’s 68 linguistic groups, representing 364 linguistic variants in eleven linguistic families, including Otomi, Tohono O’odham, Huichol, Tarahumara, Nahuatl, Mayan, and Mixtec”: https://68voces.mx/

A long but really interesting lecture on the neurological drivers of human behaviors and perceptions, by leading Neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky: https://tinyurl.com/y8rvv8l6

Diana Scherer uses a special technique to make plant roots grow into beautifully intricate patterns: https://tinyurl.com/ydegux8j

Worried about plague? Need to impress a girl at the ball? Want to know the proper way to harvest mandrake? This website has all the advice you’ll ever need!: https://tinyurl.com/y7trh7dw

The family with no fingerprints, and the challenges they face in today’s world: https://tinyurl.com/yavfhejq

A lovely little stop-motion gif of a whale: https://tinyurl.com/ybhjd28u

(NSFW) The bizarre, fantastical, and oddly charming concept art of Rob Bliss: https://tinyurl.com/ya58bjql

The history, and possible technology-driven future, of Antoni Gaudi’s one-of-a-kind cathedral: https://tinyurl.com/yxv32q2o

You may have seen posts about Dr. John Snow’s 1854 cholera map and how it revolutionized the way we track down the sources of outbreaks, but the truth is somewhat different from the myth: https://tinyurl.com/y7q5rdbb

NASA’s Scientific Visualizatin Studio has loads of great visual resources about all things earth & space: https://tinyurl.com/y9d4slh8

Annie Lennox and The London City Voices perform a version of When I am Laid in Earth, from Henry Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’, in support of Greenpeace: https://tinyurl.com/yazdg2oh

How do we decide when to call an outbreak a pandemic?: https://tinyurl.com/yb24t4rn

Visualizing what Athens, Greece would have looked like 2,500 years ago: https://tinyurl.com/ycwu86hr

The Lord of the Rings characters if they were dogs: https://tinyurl.com/y7h6r9k2

(NSFW) Photographer Elon Berge looks inside the lives of women of the Suicide Girls Burlesque: https://tinyurl.com/y755ddur

That time when Quetzalcóatl replaced Santa Claus (Article translated into English with Google Translate): https://tinyurl.com/ycf9evmt

Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead II: https://tinyurl.com/ydz68ngg

One year of beaver dam traffic captured on a trail cam: https://tinyurl.com/ycnvumnn

Brussels-based director Soetkin Verstegen bills her methodical and nostalgic animation “Freeze Frame” as a “miniature cinema inside an ice cube.” Produced in a grainy, vintage style, the black-and-white short loosely follows workers as they harvest and attempt to preserve the frozen blocks. Amidst scenes of the monotonous, assembly line efforts are insects, frogs, and various creatures swimming across the frames and eventually, crystallizing into skeletal ice sculptures: https://tinyurl.com/y84nmtpl

(Image source: https://tinyurl.com/ycfvtbp9)

The Conditional Orchestra uses the current weather conditions in a specific location to compose delightful tunes: https://tinyurl.com/y8ch6wxd

A cool presentation on how cameras work, including interactive visuals to help demonstrate how each part works: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/

The dialect of England’s Black Country (known as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution) area is perhaps one of the last examples of early English that’s still spoken today: https://tinyurl.com/ydfh23pd

I used to work at a store that sold all kinds of imported goods, including some food items, and the price of our vanilla beans would fluctuate wildly depending on what sort of climatic or political upheavals were going on in Madagascar at any given time. Why Madagascar, you ask?: https://tinyurl.com/y3lzqo2q

Turns out that you can grow your own opals at home, though it’s not exactly “easy”: https://tinyurl.com/y93eq2jf

13 year old Christopher Walken in his very first film role, playing a boy who can see through walls: https://tinyurl.com/y96qppgd

The nature-inspired sculptures of Selva Aparicio (I really like the carved rug): https://tinyurl.com/y87rfq23

New analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism presents evidence that the mechanism’s front-dial ring is a 354-day lunar calendar, not a 365-day calendar as previously supposed: https://tinyurl.com/y3rv82qn

Internet user ranks their least favorite bodies of water: https://tinyurl.com/ybq7whut

When scientists give a new thing a name, it’s often some boring old Latin that most of us will kind of ignore in favor of a “common name”. But in some cases, scientists do indeed have a great deal of fun with scientific naming: https://tinyurl.com/ydz3rd3b

Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment that lets you drag characters around to create your own unique opera performance: https://tinyurl.com/y8yvhbaa

In the 1640s, the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland effectively made many long-held Christmas traditions illegal, and it went down about as well as you might imagine – ultimately helping to reignite the English Civil War: https://tinyurl.com/y7wcmpj3

Rare, behind-the-scenes look at ‘The Empire Strikes Back’: https://tinyurl.com/y86stc6v

Handy tips on how to not get murdered in one of those quaint English villages where people always seem to get murdered: https://tinyurl.com/yd5gfm4d

Artist Fiona Tang creates flowing and intense murals (and other art): https://tinyurl.com/ybxn4es8

So apparently in Elizabethan England it was legal to kidnap children for conscription into the British royal children’s choir: https://tinyurl.com/ya78zmym

A cool little video that demonstrate the different gaits dogs use. It’s intended to help animators and artists, but it’s also cool for anyone who just likes to learn how animals do stuff: https://tinyurl.com/yd8hvgap

Materiom offer open-source recipes for making raw material, like bioplastics, from natural ingredients: https://tinyurl.com/ycya38ly

A selection of the best science photos of 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y9hbll27

Scientists discover a cricket that makes it’s own megaphones: https://tinyurl.com/yb9w8fsh

If you love bizarre monsters AND love embroidered patches, you will love Hannah Comstock: https://tinyurl.com/y6u9lbet

“I am proud to present my latest project – the Astropanel. This program will help you decide when you should bring out your telescope“: https://tinyurl.com/y7kso4jz

Inventionis Mater is an Italian duo who interpret the music of Frank Zappa on classical musical instruments: https://tinyurl.com/y7c3jsul

“When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of clothes that come from people and places distinctly strange”: https://tinyurl.com/jozjpvd

(Gif source: https://tinyurl.com/yb2yvlbb)

Enjoy an educational video about 5000 year old spreadsheets: https://tinyurl.com/y5kbznhq

“Since 2007, South Africa has experienced innumerable rolling blackouts and power outages due to the South African Energy Crises. Recurring utility disruptions have had tremendous financial, social and political impact on a country struggling to find ways to keep up with ever-increasing energy demand. Ailing and outdated infrastructure, combined with government corruption, inaction and mismanagement by authorities has only caused these crises to persist and grow”: https://tinyurl.com/y2el5dlc

The stop-motion granny: https://tinyurl.com/y6oaojhk

“They called her a witch, because she chatted with animals and owned a terrorist-crow, known for stealing gold and attacking bicyclists. A lynx slept in her bed, and she shared her roof with a tamed boar. Simona Kossak was a scientist, ecologist and the author of award-winning films – as well as an activist who fought to protect Europe’s oldest forest”: https://tinyurl.com/y4ffapkv

An absolutely adorable tardigrade puppet from Hand Sewn Heads: https://tinyurl.com/yyxscamf

A heartwarming story about modern day, real-life fairies. Caution, this story may leave a bit of dust in your eye: https://tinyurl.com/y5fhpzfp

Slo-mo cameras show secrets of bat’s flight: https://tinyurl.com/y2yrh84t

Winning Photos from the 2020 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest: https://tinyurl.com/yym664uj

If you use paints and want to improve your color matching skills, or are just getting started with painting, Chris Breier’s color theory and color matching videos may be helpful for you: https://tinyurl.com/y63cl6mz

A Tasmanian man has spent decades compiling a database of more than 30,000 edible plants around the world in an effort to reduce malnutrition by showing people how much food exists in their local landscapes: https://tinyurl.com/y2cvvvra

How did the White House become the White House?: https://tinyurl.com/y6zsn652

From 2017, an interesting article in Nature describing a wide range of visual organs that have evolved independently, in a vast range of species, since life first started developing on earth. It’s a pretty science-y paper that’s written largely for other scientists, not the general public, so don’t feel bad if there’s terminology you aren’t familiar with: https://tinyurl.com/yxcjlq9y

“Hubble turned 30 this year, and it has a birthday present to share with you! Newly released Hubble images of 30 celestial objects from the Caldwell Catalog show stunning cosmic sights, many of which you can see with a backyard telescope!”: https://tinyurl.com/yyh7yvcj

Spiders in Space is a K-12 educational experiment that examines the behavioral and physical changes of golden orb weaving spiders in space. The experiment was launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on May 16, 2011 and transferred to the International Space Station on May 19, 2011: https://tinyurl.com/y3qtx3m5

At the Museum of the City of New York is a really dolls’ house special: the famous Stettheimer Dollhouse. Carrie Walter Stettheimer (1869-1944) developed the Dollhouse over the course of 19 years (from 1916 to the death of her mother in 1935), creating many of the furnishings and decorations by hand: https://tinyurl.com/yy22g9bf

At the end of the 17th century there appeared the first noting of a mysterious kayak-paddling “Finnman” seen in Orkney waters. Jonathan Westaway explores the subsequent explanations and how early modern science’s fascination with unfamiliar objects, and the “out-of-place” in general, helped conjure the idea of an Inuit presence in the region and, in turn, a new chapter of Scottish folklore: https://tinyurl.com/yyf4w7l8

Two lifelong friends go birdwatching and talk about the banalities and quirks of life in this surprisingly deep animation by Joe Bennett & Joe Pera: https://tinyurl.com/y6z32xl6

A surprisingly catchy acoustic guitar version of Stayin’ Alive: https://tinyurl.com/y6esvl2z

Internet-famous animals rendered into 3D prints. I love that squirrel: https://tinyurl.com/yyy8vuvz

An Oscar-winning animation from 1950 that’s considered to be the “9th Greatest Cartoon of All Time”: https://tinyurl.com/y2hbqbj2

Atlas Obscura on the doctor who was HIGHLY suspicious of polyester pants: https://tinyurl.com/y5fwpk7g

The CRAP Test, developed by Molly Beestrum, is a helpful tool to use when trying to decide if a website is a credible, valid source. The CRAP Test looks at four major areas: currency, reliability, authority and purpose. When determining whether a website is credible or not, evaluate it on those four areas: https://tinyurl.com/y4p6kdyj

From 2012, but still very relevant today, an article about how political consulting became a big business, and then some: https://tinyurl.com/y3evvev5

Click on the Secret Door and be transported to a randomly chosen location in Google Street View. To see a new location, just refresh the page and then click the door again: https://tinyurl.com/y4ftnes8

Artist Shawn Feeney’s Musical Anatomy series blends humans with musical instruments in a fascinating way: https://tinyurl.com/yyltbhtc

The wonderfully surreal paintings of John Brosio: https://tinyurl.com/y3aw7szm

Not many in the U.S. know that ice cream brand Häagen Dazs commissioned well-known interior, industrial and traditional designers, one for each eleven years from 2008-2019, to create uniquely beautiful and delicious Christmas ice cream cakes for the annual Häagen-Dazs Ice Show in France and for sale in France, Belgium, Amsterdam, London and Japan at the holidays: https://tinyurl.com/yy7ccgfp

“In the heart of urban Brooklyn, a 300-year old farmhouse still stands. Archaeologist Alyssa Loorya explains how artifacts found at the site trace the life cycles of New York City–from 1720 to today”: https://tinyurl.com/y537f7yz

The DARPA Subterranean Challenge will task teams of robots with autonomous exploration deep beneath the surface of the Earth. Here’s one team as they prepare for the Final Event in 2021: https://tinyurl.com/yyze7afn

The strange and terrible tale of how Liberia became a tax haven for US companies: https://tinyurl.com/y4tcuhq2

A collection of Native American legends and folklore, sorted by tribal group: https://tinyurl.com/br6kdf

CG artist Pwnisher challenged his followers and fellow artists to come up with a short render based on a basic template that he provided. 125 artists responded, each offering their own very different take on the provided source image of a character walking toward a mountain: https://tinyurl.com/y6xj5rr4

A gross-yet-fascinating timelapse of a cooked potato decomposing into a shriveled wad of dust (The tiny critters look like spider mites to me but I could be completely wrong): https://tinyurl.com/y3qu8lyv

The cutest handmade bag ever: https://tinyurl.com/y58oack9

A YouTuber may have found an answer to the question of what ended up happening to pirate Anne Bonny: https://tinyurl.com/y2dpozv7

Released by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1925, this short film features nearly century-old footage of daily life in the Nile Valley: https://tinyurl.com/yy97nuxz

“Pedestrian Survey” is a very common archaeological technique, and a fancy way of saying “Line up side-by-side and walk straight ahead while staring at the ground”. Yep, archaeology is nonstop excitement, folks: https://tinyurl.com/yykhs38b

A delightful twitter thread featuring movie scenes that imitate or resemble famous paintings (Some mildly NSFW content): https://tinyurl.com/yxdf3z7x

“Killing the journalist won’t kill the story. We are a network of journalists whose mission is to continue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats, prison, or murder”: https://tinyurl.com/yyq79sop

According to Need is a new five-part documentary podcast from 99% Invisible: “The way homelessness has exploded in California over the last decade, you’d think there was no system in place to address it. But there is one – it just wasn’t designed to help everyone.” Produced by Katie Mingle, the Prologue covers her arrival in Oakland last year, Chapter 1 focuses on Tulicia’s experience sleeping inside her car with her son, and Chapter 2 spends a day in the 211 “homelessness hotline” call center to find out why it’s a dead-end for so many people: https://tinyurl.com/y3uofr4h

This superb watch by Swiss watchmaker Jaquet Droz features mechanical birds that chime the hour: https://tinyurl.com/y5udkh9q

What do the American bison, western gorilla, and Eurasian eagle-owl have in common?: https://tinyurl.com/y2pxrbvo

If fancy wood joinery is your jam, you’ll love Dylan Iwakuni’s YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/y5yc5cmv

A documentary that follows people as they search the world for their doppelgänger, a person who looks just like them even though they aren’t related, and examines how similar their lives are (or aren’t): https://tinyurl.com/yxhd2ohf

A collection of “Cold War calculators”, handheld measuring tools that help the user gauge the severity of things like chemical weapons, radiation contamination, and bomb blasts: https://tinyurl.com/y5soqfou

If you’re a lover of literature, you’ll love Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Make sure you scroll down to read passages from past years’ winners. Yes, they are as bad as you imagine: https://tinyurl.com/y5zmbfwh

In 1942 a forest ranger discovered hundreds of human bones and skulls in a Himalayan lake. Despite decades of research and multiple hypothesis, the mystery of who they were, why they were there, and how they died is still being untangled: https://tinyurl.com/y4o62839

The Internet Archive Manual Library is a collection of manuals, instructions, walkthroughs, and datasheets for a massive spectrum of items: https://tinyurl.com/yyyqqzb5

An animated map of every reported UFO sighting between 1906 and 2014: https://tinyurl.com/y2rasmkb

“We worked with the team at Imperial War Museum to reimagine what the end of the First World War might have sounded like for their Making a New World season. They asked us to create an interpretation based on a unique image from their archive: a section of film called the End of the War which shows a before and after recording made by a ‘sound ranging’ unit at the end of the First World War, on 11 November 1918”: https://tinyurl.com/y3oh9v9r

Ranking emergency alarms from around the world. Israel’s definitely freaks me out a little bit: https://tinyurl.com/yy4exe3k

Colorful rammed-earth domes on Iran’s Hormuz Island. I would totally live in a village that looked like this: https://tinyurl.com/y5mzhfqh

Stephanie Kilgast’s vibrant sculptures blend scenes of nature with humanity’s trash in a beautiful way: https://tinyurl.com/yxmw8pfz

Visual Polyhedra. Each polyhedron’s page contains a 3-dimensional virtual model of the polyhedron, followed by a summary of the polyhedron’s vital statistics: https://tinyurl.com/y5xfc9on

A 15th century poem by Francois Villon is translated into London slang by William Ernst Hensley in the 19th century, and now it’s been turned into a “cant” song (a song with lyrics that are spoken rather than sung): https://tinyurl.com/yykq2m4d

Some extremely impressive art cakes: https://tinyurl.com/yy7cwj98

The 2020 duct tape prom attire winners. These are pretty impressive: https://tinyurl.com/yxqtbptw

16 tips for loosening rusty bolts: https://tinyurl.com/y6n3k25t

“Buck v. Bell: Inside the SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of 70,000 & Inspired the Nazis”: https://tinyurl.com/y4u5d2r7

Dissecting the original Dr. Who theme music (use the menu to navigate through the sections): https://tinyurl.com/yxt8qkdo

“As a special Halloween treat, we are pleased to present this unique and hilarious DJ mix made up of the best (worst?) in Dracula-themed disco”: https://tinyurl.com/y569xluh

Residing in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago is an astoundingly intricate lock depicting the Grimm Fairytale, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”: https://tinyurl.com/yxptdtl3

A world map of abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines: https://tinyurl.com/y588esxp

Always true to its purpose, the Internet Archive has devised a way to store and play Flash animations using emulators created by Ruffle and the BlueMaxima Flashpoint Project, who have already archived tens of thousands of Flash games. All those adorable Homestar Runner cartoons? Saved from extinction, which would have been their fate, since “without a Flash player, flash animations don’t work.”: https://tinyurl.com/y6rmh664

So how do you retrieve a 600+ foot cargo ship from the bottom of St. Simons Sound?: https://tinyurl.com/y2ulng9j

Andre Antunes creates metal versions of popular music. Rather skillfully, in my opinion: https://tinyurl.com/yx9ecldb

So this one time, scientists decided to do an MRI on a woman who was undergoing an exorcism. Because SCIENCE, that’s why: https://tinyurl.com/y4tljn3l

The Impossible Goblet is made of borosilicate glass, giving it an impressive amount of flexibility you would never expect to see in glass: https://tinyurl.com/y5oo7eyd And what IS borosilicate glass, anyway?: https://tinyurl.com/y3q5bxvc

If you’re a fan of stories that are weird, paranormal, and all-around questionable, head over to Medium’s “The Weird Closet”: https://tinyurl.com/yxtfmx6g

A-ha’s “Take on Me” was born in 1981 as a song called “Miss Eerie” by A-ha members Pål Waaktaar’s and Magne Furuholmen’s previous band Bridges: https://tinyurl.com/y5umlwmk

For fans of the 1995 movie Hackers, a collection of behind-the-scenes Polaroids of the actors in their various costumes: https://tinyurl.com/y3nvcrcc

Corey Arnold’s photo journal of working the Bering Sea. I grew up on the coast of the Bering, so these bring up some nostalgia for me: https://tinyurl.com/yymscmjg

The slightly embellished true story of Black Agnes, kick-ass defender of Dunbar Castle: https://tinyurl.com/y4xua3kl

“Star Wars Down Under”. You might want to turn on the closed captions to help translate the Australian slang: https://tinyurl.com/y3cl8l4j

Cool little video about the chemistry and physics of choosing sky and plant colors when you build a fictional world: https://tinyurl.com/y257tvht

50 pies for 50 U.S. states: https://tinyurl.com/yy7qfz6f

Translating tattoos on Andean mummies: https://tinyurl.com/y3raq976

Applying the principals of Konnakol (the art of performing percussion syllables vocally in South Indian Carnatic music) to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: https://tinyurl.com/y5skssya

George Parker Bidder was born with a surprising gift: He could do complex arithmetic in his head. His feats of calculation would earn for him a university education, a distinguished career in engineering, and fame throughout 19th-century England: https://tinyurl.com/y4any4nn

The Observatory of Deaths at the Border is an interactive map which uses data from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and GISTI (a legal service for asylum seekers in France) to plot where people have died trying to cross from Europe into the UK: https://tinyurl.com/y3js3zpo

For non-Americans who have ever asked “Why are Americans like that?”, this article about American Bro culture offers some excellent insights: https://tinyurl.com/yxv6yjcj

You’ve probably heard pieces of the song in various movies, tv shows, and commercials, but you probably haven’t seen the video (unless you’re a creaky old fossil like me): https://tinyurl.com/y6zlfkw8

If Indigenous crafts interest you, here’s Mary Weahkee, an archaeologist for the State of New Mexico, who was commissioned by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe to re-create the ancient craft of making a blanket from thousands of turkey feathers for an upcoming exhibit: https://tinyurl.com/y3zo3my9

Turns out that wolverines can be trained to rescue people buried by avalanches. If you know anything about wolverines this news may evoke mixed feelings: https://tinyurl.com/y4pclh27

Elon Musk’s space transportation company SpaceX is in the process of creating a constellation of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit. This constellation is called Starlink. The small satellites in Starlink will be used for a range of military, scientific and exploratory purposes. And you can track them all on this live, interactive map: https://tinyurl.com/ybhkly3n

A drawing a day, by Edward Carey: https://tinyurl.com/y3bjrgue

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twisting motion when squeezed. These subunits could potentially be assembled by tiny robots into a nearly limitless variety of objects with built-in functionality, including vehicles, large industrial parts, or specialized robots that can be repeatedly reassembled in different forms: https://tinyurl.com/y4ummt2b

“Infinite Bad Guy” uses machine learning to analyze all the covers of Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy and align them to within a quarter beat of each other, allowing you to seamlessly move between cover versions while the song plays continuously: https://tinyurl.com/y3thudyr

Gorgeous beadwork by Jennifer Chrisco: https://tinyurl.com/y3lsfosy

Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit, and resulted in this: https://tinyurl.com/yy8xcaoy

Wonderful little experiment in 3D animation: https://tinyurl.com/y4bmqzbs

Sculptor Tomás Barceló Castelá draws inspiration from sources both ancient and modern to create his wonderfully individual and captivating artworks: https://tinyurl.com/y2b29xwx

The Poetry Map of Scotland has more than 350 poems, each linked to a specific place in Scotland. The map is a standard Google map, and you can zoom in and click on the title of poems, which takes you to the poem itself. The map is a project of the Stanza Poetry Festival, and the poems have been submitted by living poets: https://tinyurl.com/y6afaqyk

Play That Funky Music Rammstein. Just the pick-me-up you need in troubled times: https://tinyurl.com/y56u9p49

The Omni Calculator website offers a cornucopia of calculators to help you with everything from figuring out how much alcohol to serve at a wedding to gear ratios to how much sun exposure is safe: https://tinyurl.com/y8qsf4q8

You may have seen that strangely alluring pig couch that went viral recently, but you may not know its backstory: https://tinyurl.com/yysfmawc

Exploring cultural traditions in Russia’s northern Pinezhsky region: https://tinyurl.com/y3ody2wd

Another fantastic website for people who love macro photos of insects: https://tinyurl.com/y6rl2wvy

Smooth beats and hypnotics figures in this video directed and animated by Istanbul-based Gökalp Gönen: https://tinyurl.com/y5djf45r

Hans Zimmer performs Time Soundtrack from Inception live mixed with a film by Bashir Abu Shakra shot in the Dolomite mountains of Italy. It took him 2 years to make the film and it is absolutely stunning: https://tinyurl.com/yxhzga4n

Thirty-five years ago, a Bouyei ethnic minority member was trafficked across China to a faraway village where nobody spoke her language. This year, she miraculously found her way home. C/W – physical abuse, human trafficking: https://tinyurl.com/y4xzexrp

Paintings by Alessandro Sicioldr. I love how he uses a classical style of light and shadow, blended with elements of the bizarre: https://tinyurl.com/y4hucftd

Messy Messy delves into the saga of the man who bought a ghost town. Sounds like it’s a lot harder than people think: https://tinyurl.com/yy88pmvp

A modern take on the enchanted forest getaway: https://tinyurl.com/yxs9rf63

Plink is a multiplayer musical tool that lets you create beats with random strangers: https://tinyurl.com/3htauew

Tropospheric ducting is a type of radio propagation which allows transmission of VHF frequencies and above beyond traditional line of sight range. Which explains a whole lot of those “Mysterious voice coming from the radio” stories: https://tinyurl.com/y5gd2hr8

If you’re a fan of animated photo gifs: https://tinyurl.com/y4cdxfvd

Some seriously intense and unique facial jewelry: https://tinyurl.com/y32ks3vy

How about a little ham for the Christmas tree?: https://tinyurl.com/yy2r9hck

Halitrephes Jellies are like fireworks of the sea: https://tinyurl.com/y7owg8gw

In 1965 Gerald Potter, who would go on to direct Heavy Metal, directed a lesser-known film called The Railrodder. Its star was beloved silent movie star Buster Keaton, doing what he does best in the one of the last roles he’d ever play: https://tinyurl.com/y7vpqerd

How a reindeer skin sleeping bag helped tell a story of Arctic survival: https://tinyurl.com/yxdrqrj8

The challenges of chasing down fake fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls: https://tinyurl.com/yxtjnjs2

Diving into the details of a 17th century tapestry, made in China for the Portuguese market, depicting the abduction of Helen of Troy: https://tinyurl.com/y46n44xf

From artist Maeve Travis, a lovely fan-made graphic novel adaptation of a collaborative short story posted on tumblr, for the prompt “Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up”: https://tinyurl.com/y22lscf8

Paleoartist and scientific illustrator Gabriel Ugueto has a golden rule for his work: Accuracy. In order to resurrect the dinosaurs, Ugueto begins with a single bone and works his way from inside out: https://tinyurl.com/yy2efekm