Early wintry weather is approaching, giving you an even better excuse to stay in with some nice, cosy Internet 
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- She’s One of Florida’s Most Lethal Python Hunters—but the Invasive Creatures Still Have a Hold on Her - Pythons are a problem in the Florida Everglades: ”Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win.”
- The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules - ”Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials.” More indications that life on Earth might come from Outer Space
- Fat Bears and 5 Other Stories of Preparing for Winter - As the cold snap moves in this week, here's a selection of stories about how other species cope: ”From big-bottomed ants to gorging on salmon, there are plenty of ways to be ready for the cold months ahead.”
- The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal - ”Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?” At least some of the opposition seems to come from the kind of people who think the United Nations are invading
- Ask Ethan: How do scientists color the Universe? - Ethan Siegel explains how astronomers colour things in: ”When we look at astronomical images of the Universe, whether from Hubble, JWST, or any other observatory, they typically show a broad array of colorful features. But these color-coded images don’t necessarily show us the same things human eyes would see; instead, they’re optimized to encode important information in an easy-to-process visual format.”
- Lofty Ambitions - ”One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named Maurice Wilson clutched the stick of his tiny, open air biplane and watched his fuel gauge dwindle… Wilson pushed on, knuckles white. He would not turn back, and he had no intention of crashing into the Arabian Sea. He sought a larger goal, a quest he believed to be his God-given destiny: to crash his plane into Mount Everest.” Where do people get these ideas?
- SABRE - ”Welcome to SABRE - The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.” Loads of interesting stuff here, including road maps from over a hundred years ago to the present, allowing you to travel through time and see how trunk roads and bypasses spread through the land
- Back of the Box Builds - One for Lego enthusiasts, particularly those with older sets: ”There were once pictures of additional LEGO® builds on the back of set boxes. Written on the boxes was typically something about the endless building possibilities, ‘Build any of these exciting models with this set!’ There were no instructions for these alternate builds, until now.”
- B777 - Aviation Accident Database - As this is Monday Links 777, it seems only right to post something about the Boeing 777, so here’s a list of accidents it’s been involved in: ”Safety and performance are hallmarks of the B777. It has an excellent safety record, supported by advanced avionics, redundant systems, and rigorous testing.” And yet the page isn’t empty. Anyway, there’s also loads of other interesting stuff on this site
- Woodblocks in Wonderland: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series - ”From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series of beautifully illustrated books, the majority printed on an unusual cloth-like crepe paper, the publisher Takejiro Hasegawa introduced Japanese folk tales to the West.” It was a bit before my time I think, but these books look really nice
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