- Danger on the Divide - Maggie Slepian and her partner Matt have an extremely rough time on the 2,700 mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route: ”My confidence eroded by the day. My stomach felt constantly upset, my handlebar angle never felt right. I developed sciatic nerve pain… I scanned his body, trying to make sense of what I saw. His cheeks were gaunt, his red-rimmed eyes sat deep in their socket. How had I missed this?”
- How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary - ”Long explored but infrequently embraced, base 3 computing may yet find a home in cybersecurity.” Inevitable binary joke: "These go up to 11"
- Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid formed in Solar System’s outer reaches - ”The object that smashed into Earth and kick-started the extinction that wiped out almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago was an asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, according to geochemical evidence from the impact site in Chicxulub, Mexico.” The findings prove that it wasn't a comet, as some have argued.
- The Holloway Meteorite - Closer to home, and with less mass extinction: ”The idea of a meteorite landing in Holloway was unbelievable and had to be investigated. Where was Phoebe Place? And what happened to the stone?”
- Hiroshima Archive - ”It has been 70 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and all the remaining A-bomb survivors will have died out in the coming decades. This means that those people who from their own experience have the strongest desire for peace and a nuclear-free world will be lost. Extending the mission of the ‘Nagasaki Archive’, which was published on the web in 2010, the ‘Hiroshima Archive’ has been produced in 2011 by melding a large amount of materials accumulated over 66 years with the latest Internet technologies, with a view to passing on the experiences and messages of A-bomb survivors to future generations.”
- Who tried to steal Graceland? - A strange tale of attempted fraud: ”A trail of clues left by Naussany Investments, the fake company that scammed Elvis Presley's family, led to a grandmother in Missouri.”
- Everybody Gets a Star - ”Twenty years after its debut, Yelp has changed how we think about reviewing everything and anything.” Five stars
- Nigel Kneale: The BBC Radio Collection - HT to DoctorStrangelove for this collection: ”A mix of radio documentary, readings and dramatic adaptations to give you a sense of Nigel Kneale’s unique talent and incredible influence on science fiction and horror. In FLAC (lossless) and Mp3.”
- Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group - ”This site contains several years of research in the classification of occlupanids. These small objects are everywhere, dotting supermarket aisles and sidewalks with an impressive array of form and color.” If you’re still wondering, they’re the tags used to close bags of bread
- Маша Ивашинцова - In English, her name is Masha Ivashintsova, a Russian amateur photographer. More about her and this archive at The Secret Stash of Soviet Street Photographer Masha Ivashintsova: ”Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan and her husband were renovating their house near St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly, Leningrad), when they stumbled in the attic on an oversized box among her late mother’s belongings. Inside they found a treasure trove: 30,000 negatives and occasional prints packaged in envelopes with handwritten comments and dates… Here was street photography of Leningrad and Moscow, images of Ivashintsova’s travels across the USSR, photos of Asya as a child, dilapidated courtyards, old pets, imperial statues, cramped Soviet apartments, portraits of lovers and strangers, beggars and babushkas. Ivashintsova captured countless facets of Soviet life from 1960 to 1999.” This is a playground in Leningrad in 1978.
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