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Tag Archives: links
Links 6/18: Linkonberry Jam
Scientists Share The Worst Stock Photos Of Their Jobs. A subreddit for somnivexillology, the study of flags that appear in dreams. In 1962, a pair of con artists claimed to be representatives of the Incan gods and used their charisma … Continue reading
Links 5/18: Snorri URL-uson
The ancient Persian calendar may be the most metal of all calendars, with months like “Month Of Wolf Killing”, “Month Of The Nameless God”, and “The Terrible One”. (h/t squareallworthy) A Bayesian analysis of antidepressant efficacy. funeral-disease on how old … Continue reading
Links 4/18: Siter Plate
Sumerian mythology includes a bunch of weird legendary debates, like The Debate Between Sheep And Grain, the Debate Between Winter And Summer, and the Debate Between Bird And Fish. In case you’re wondering, the winners were (spoiler alert) grain, winter, … Continue reading
Links 2/18: Link Biao Incident
Punding, an uncommon side effect of abusing amphetamines and other dopaminergic drugs, involves “compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects, [for example] collecting pebbles and lining them up … Continue reading
Links 1/18: Helink Of Troy
Did you know: the world’s largest Hindu temple is in the city of Robbinsville, New Jersey. Among Antarctica’s few rivers is the Alph, so named because it runs through caverns down to a sunless sea. Norway joins Portugal in decriminalizing … Continue reading
Links 12/17: Silent Site, Holy Site
The world’s largest hotel is in Saudi Arabia, hosts 10,000 guests, and looks pretty much how you would expect the world’s largest hotel in Saudi Arabia to look. Legends of Chinese immigrants in California, unsourced, sometimes a bit implausible. “John … Continue reading
Links 11/17: Sri Linka
Paul Palaiologos Tagaris, Byzantine con man, “was appointed an Orthodox bishop, pretended to be the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, switched from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism and back again, supported both the See of Rome and the Avignon anti-popes in … Continue reading
Links 10/17: Martin LuthURL
Ulpian’s life table is the closest thing we have to actuarial data from ancient Rome. Key quote: “Although Keith Hopkins called the table not ‘demographically possible’, it corresponds well to other observed populations with abnormally high mortality rates (such as … Continue reading
Links 9/17: HURLy-bURLy
Forest rings: like fairy rings, except with trees, and up to a mile wide, and no one knows why they form. From AskReddit: Russians who were adults back while the Soviet Union existed, how does life in Russia now compare … Continue reading
Links 8/17: Exsitement
Hackers encode malware that infects DNA sequencing software in a strand of DNA. Make sure to run your family members through an antivirus program before ordering genetic testing. Every time I feel like I’ve accepted how surprising optical illusions can … Continue reading