Ted Green has been collecting the sounds and sights of transit systems for more than a decade: https://tinyurl.com/ynthmfc8Fantastical felted and embroidered headwear by Séverine Gallardo: https://tinyurl.com/s5jrxws5

Explore Mars with NASA’s new realtime tool: https://tinyurl.com/25wu27by

Mark McCloud’s collection, also known as the “institute of illegal images” is the most comprehensive collection of decorated LSD blotter paper in the world: https://tinyurl.com/yms7my3n

Please enjoy this caterpillar and its angry butt pompoms: https://tinyurl.com/ffavf78f

German photographer Jan Erik Waider is known for his interesting approach to landscape photography. Preferring to draw out abstract shapes in nature, he often travels to Iceland to produce unique takes on the oft-photographed environment. So, it was only natural that he make a trip when the Fagradalsfjall volcano began erupting in March 2021: https://tinyurl.com/2ppnpkh9

A side-by-side comparison of the respective music videos for the Michael Jackson song “Beat It” and the “Weird Al” Yankovic direct parody “Eat It”: https://tinyurl.com/2mdm4s55

Some whimsical animated scenes: https://tinyurl.com/3hmzyn2y

What if every sport used bowling balls?: https://tinyurl.com/yaxmhk3h

Cyttaria gunnii, commonly known as the myrtle orange or beech orange, is an orange-white colored and edible ascomycete fungus native to Australia and New Zealand (Images may be disturbing to people with trypophobia): https://tinyurl.com/yshj2pep

Artist Mike Strick makes a wide range of creepy-cool sculptures, props, and toys: https://tinyurl.com/tzjbr3ef

A website that helps you find niche museums near you, or anywhere: https://tinyurl.com/3d2ndke4

“Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Many of the places where these disasters occur are literally ‘missing’ from open and accessible maps and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of people who live at risk of disasters and crises”: https://tinyurl.com/3u37fp6z

An educational page all about how boats float and how, therefore, they are engineered and built – at every step of the way there are small interactives which let you explore the relationships between the hull, the water and gravity, which as you read give you a degree of understanding about how the whole ‘floating’ thing happens at scale: https://tinyurl.com/sampyd69

Mdou Moctar stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music: https://tinyurl.com/chew3msy

A fascinating pottery decorating technique. The thread he’s pulling is actually very thin tape: https://tinyurl.com/yupbuhrw (Artist’s Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/yfyk2yma)

“I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It’s a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window.”: https://tinyurl.com/46k984h5

Some lovely pics of a gorgeous, colorful jumping spider: https://tinyurl.com/jpevavns

Artist Adam Ellis has created a darker, creepier version of Charlie Brown: https://tinyurl.com/fxuws8vc

He may not be good at harmonica but daring he’s trying his best: https://tinyurl.com/2bjkzysh

Take a trip to the Fox Village of Japan, where visitors can enjoy six different species of fox: https://tinyurl.com/wk4sxvhe

Mindat is the world’s largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from: https://tinyurl.com/trfs2pxs

“If Pretty Woman had starred Willem Dafoe instead”. This is horrifying: https://tinyurl.com/y5n85yue

“Geneticat is a little webpage which presents a filing cabinet, a shelf, and a polygonal cat which is attempting to jump from the former to the latter. Except the cat doesn’t know how its body works, and is learning, generation by generation, what its limbs do and how ‘jumping’ is meant to happen – each time the poor thing falls to the floor, a new iteration is generated, learning from the mistakes of its predecessors”: https://tinyurl.com/4wxw6d7c

An entire subreddit for people with overly dramatic houseplants: https://tinyurl.com/56dfbmeh

Built from ingenuity and desperation, the French coastal village of Equihen-Plage gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘boat house’: https://tinyurl.com/4et473pc

elan.school is a harrowing webcomic now in 67 installments (the latest posted August 27) by a survivor of the “Elan School”, a reform school in the woods of Poland Springs, Maine. The school, which operated from 1970 to 2011 when it was shut down, used cult methods, forcing kids to scream insults at each other hours a day, remain expressionless while being insulted, box each other in a ring, and confine others to sit in the corner. Communication with family was closely supervised to keep the abuse hidden: https://tinyurl.com/fun5f5aj

The saga of the Armour Institute of Technology’s infamous Snow Cruiser: https://tinyurl.com/mdp2x4je

“At Unsettling Toy Removal and Rehoming, we appreciate that not every toy is suited for every family. A doll who changes rooms, or a fluffy bear who stares may be a delight to some, and a horror for others. We take pride in matching unsettling toys with people who appreciate their “quirks.”: https://tinyurl.com/te23ty9f

It takes a LOT of work to get dinosaur fossils out of rocks: https://tinyurl.com/3eb6hubn

Can you guess any of the movie titles from these AI-generated posters? (I sure couldn’t): https://tinyurl.com/3kwkua9f

A stunning time lapse short film of the 2013 Kumbh Mela gathering. Kumbh Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage which attracts, each year, the greatest peaceful get together of people in the world: https://tinyurl.com/xda5w4mx

British Pathé shows us how paper furniture was made: https://tinyurl.com/w5ew8k4w

The Kennis brothers create amazingly lifelike reconstructions of humans and human relatives from our ancient past: https://tinyurl.com/yjsr5trf

Dang, Tyranosaurs did NOT play around: https://tinyurl.com/5crswbxj

Every time I visit the Museum of Bad Art I find something I love: https://tinyurl.com/22d5hvzf

“There’s an old story about an explorer arriving in a new territory. He points to a mountain (or some other geographic feature) and asks a local what it’s called. The local gives him a name, say “X,” and from then on the explorer calls it Mount X. Except the local was just telling him the word “mountain” in the local language. Translated, the name is now “Mount Mountain”. This is a polyglot tautology”: https://tinyurl.com/4yfwrk9c

“Old Buck” is a poignant animated short about an old dinosaur fighting to stay on top: https://tinyurl.com/kck88fed

One of my favorite fungi: https://tinyurl.com/c9b6mnrj

Met Gala gowns as Sci-Fi/Fantasy books: https://tinyurl.com/wsa7bw24

What would you do if you had a device that can tell you the facts about anyone and anything?: https://tinyurl.com/3dnxmc2t