Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Miss Cellania's Links

The Great Seattle Windshield Epidemic.

Is Poverty a Kind of Robbery? (via Metafilter)

Skeletons made of light cavort like you and I do -sort of. The 65 photographs called "Afterlife" are the creations of light sculptor Darius Twin.

Charles Darwin: "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family"

CIA operatives got into Tehran and rescued six of the Americans held hostage in 1979. They were posing as a Hollywood production crew, which opens doors everywhere.

A recently-discovered frozen woolly mammoth in Siberia may contain the freshest cells ever found. Which would be really handy in cloning a mammoth, they way they made dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

The 10 Cutest Baby Animals of the Desert. Even that ugly pronghorn youngster has its charms.

Honeybees are so smart. They can alter their own genetic makeup when they need to, to insure the work of the hive gets done.

The Most Disgusting Cartoon-Themed Snacks from Your Childhood. After all, Saturday morning is where our eating habits are learned and programmed for life.

Cheese Mites: How Cheese Eating Pests Became Cinematic Stars. Yeah, I thought it would be a horror film, too, but it's a historic nature documentary.

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