- Nobody will believe you when you say this, but the phrase “sweet summer’s child” is from Game of Thrones. Every citation before that is supremely literal, talking about an actual child of summer.
- A 3D tour of the Temple of All Religions in Kazan, Russia. Almost normal until you get to the Egyptian room.
- Trying on Nasa’s new spacesuit
- That one lost pop song that was found in a porno
- Calcutta’s Pen Hospital will nurse your broken fountain pen back to health
- How actors remember their lines
- Āryabaṭha numeration turns numbers into compact pronounceable syllables. Kind of genius — we already took our digits from the Indians; why didn’t we lift this as well?
- The U.S.’s purge of naughty waypoint names from the skies
- JetBlue Flight 191
- Elizabeth Prophet, the prophet who failed after the apocalypse that wasn’t
- The Horny-Award-winning drug semaglutide now shows remarkable benefits for kidney disease in addition to everything else. I give it a year before we find out it cures cancer or something.
- The best, worst, and weirdest Star Wars knockoffs
- Someone on /r/Gallifrey is going through nearly every piece of canonical Doctor Who media in chronological order and i’ve never been more intimidated.
- Don’t be a Mimsy
- Radio Caroline marks its sixtieth year on the waves
- Zubrin’s nuclear saltwater rocket — one of the most powerful rocket engines ever proposed, described as “powered by Chernobyl”.
- Here’s an interesting historical curio: an instructional video from the British government on travelling to West Berlin through East Germany.
- Why ornament went away. We are so back: “So it is now possible to buy perfectly proportioned classical ornament, nearly indistinguishable from stone, that has – if the molds and the factory infrastructure are treated as a given – taken only minutes of labor to produce.”
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