Monday, August 18, 2014

Miss Cellania's Links

The 10 Most Important Days in the History of the Universe (according to an astronomer).

Working Anything but 9 to 5. In low-income jobs, work flexibility means it’s the worker who must be flexible, not the schedule. (via Metafilter)

“A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death.”

10 Props that Have Been Used in More than One Movie.

The city of Berlin had a particularly gruesome 20th century: World War I, the Holocaust, World War II, the Berlin Wall. And within the city you’ll see plenty of remembrances, memorials, and reminders that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 

I Made a Taco Pizza. “It was everything I dreamed that it would be.”

What Hurt Feelings: The Untold Story Of The 31-Year Battle Over Flashdance.

Goussainville, just north of Paris, was a perfectly normal small French town -up until just 40 years ago. It is now a group of abandoned homes. What happened?

Carl Zimmer tells us about research into how the trillions of bacteria and other microbes we carry around with us every day may be influencing our behavior -and we’d never know it.

I Intervened On Behalf Of A Young Man Who Was In Danger Of Being Unfairly Arrested.

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