Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
- Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a cabin in Algoma. "The E. H. Pitkin Summer Lodge, located on Sapper Island, is the last surviving Frank Lloyd Wright building left in Canada."
- Strike! Webb Telescope Report Reveals Micrometeor Damage To Mirrors. "In a commissioning report, the Webb Telescope team included an image of the telescope’s giant, honeycombed primary mirror that betrays the damage inflicted by a piece of space debris that smacked into the Webb sometime between May 22 and May 24, 2022."
- Webb Telescope's Search for Life In Space May Take Longer Than Expected. And if you have image processing skills, you can process the Webb data yourself.
- Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US. "Twenty-five years old this week, the film is Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's most complex work. But how it was mishandled in the West speaks of fundamental artistic differences, writes Stephen Kelly."
- Can Democracy Include a World Beyond Humans? "A truly planetary politics would extend decisionmaking to animals, ecosystems, and potentially AI."
- Manuscripts and art support archaeological evidence that syphilis was in Europe long before explorers could have brought it home from the Americas. "The only problem is that this syphilis scenario is wrong, according to ongoing research by paleopathologists, scientists who study skeletal remains for evidence of disease. After decades of painstaking work, they have concluded that the syphilis-causing spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum already existed in the Old World long before Columbus boarded his ship and sailed to Hispaniola."
- The Silurian Hypothesis: Could An Advanced Civilization Have Lived On Earth Millions Of Years Before Humans? "If a technologically advanced species existed on Earth before us, they may have left a trace."
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