Curated Links of the Weird and the Wonderful
2022 Was a Great Year for Mysteries
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all!
Snowbot: an autonomous snowblower
The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
The dance of the naked emperors: A followup to “The rise and fall of peer review”
OysterSim: Underwater Simulation for Enhancing Oyster Reef Monitoring
What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4
Alexey Titarenko’s photos of New York
xeno-canto: wildlife sounds of thousands of species of birds (they also have grasshoppers)
From 2009: Release of banned industrial substances due to melting glaciers
“Spontaneous Revolutions” Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
Mapping the mental space of emotional concepts through kinematic measures of decision uncertainty
We are all test subjects in a massive economic experiment