Today I am posting in the past

[conuly]

This is, I recognize, a departure from my usual habit of posting in the future, but I've been tired and haven't posted anything at all.

To make up for the lack of links these past few days, take an unreasonably cute strip from phoebeandherunicorn_feed. Everybody prance now!

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For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps

Solari boards: The disappearing sound of airports

Farmer Uncovers Clue To Long-Lost City Ruled By King Rumored To Have Conquered Mythical King Midas

The Strange Influence the Sun Has on Whales

Meet the veterinarian walking around the streets of California and treating homeless peoples' animals for free

As ‘West Side Story’ returns to Broadway, it has a lot to say about race in America

The Man Who Covered Up An Eruption

What Were 29 Exotic Snakes Doing in a U.K. Trash Bin? (They nearly all survived)

New York City has a turtle problem

Knitters Chronicle Climate Change One Stitch at a Time

The One War That the Human Species Can’t Lose

Imagine yourself as a modern-day alligator in central Florida, where 12 acres of wild land is sacrificed to development every hour. This is a story about what happens when the South’s creatures no longer have room to move — and about a project aimed at preserving the few corridors that connect what remains of the wild land.

Google’s black box algorithm controls which political emails land in your main inbox. For 2020 presidential candidates, the differences are stark.

CDC expects ‘community spread’ of coronavirus, as top official warns disruptions could be ‘severe’

The true cost of inequality in high school football

Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Till

A mob out for blood: India's protests pit Hindus against Muslims

Comments

[greghousesgf]

I feel rather sorry for snakes. They're cool animals and they get such a bad rap.

[conuly]

They're so cool, they're cold-blooded.

[jesuswasbatman]

Over here we associate Solari boards with railway stations rather than airports, but there's the same nostalgia. The major station that I pass through on my way to work and back was the last big railway station in London to have one.

And we've got a big invasive turtle problem in Britain as well for the same reasons. I note that the article didn't mention the main stimulus for the problem, a certain children's cartoon at the turn of the nineties.

[conuly]

Wait, is it provable that there's a correlation between airing TMNT and an increase in illegal purchases (and later releases) of turtles or is that speculation?

[jesuswasbatman]

It's definitely true here as they were a pretty rare pet earlier.

[adafrog]

Cute strip.

[conuly]

I thought so.