Today’s bookmarks…
Wed, 5 Sep 2012
Bilateral gynandromporphism – half female, half male. This genetic anomaly is usually restricted to arthropods, but has been known to express itself in birds as well.
- An Inuit village, too remote for cars is on Google Street View via tricycle
- The medical case of the woman who needed to be upside down
- From The Atlantic: How Headphones Changed the World
- From BBC News: DNA test jailed innocent man for murder
- Finally some traction: UK clampdown on debit and credit cards surcharges
- The Verge interviewed Rian Johnson on Looper
- To ripen a tomato, place a ripe banana beside it
- There is a place called Monkey Island and it’s in the name of science!
- A top 10 list of strange topics that need more explaination
- Alternate Histories: 7 Ways the World Could Be Completely Different
- Water Worlds: 15 Real Floating Towns & Ocean Cities
- The Mysteries and Tragedy of Russia’s Bottomless Karst Lake
- Shame it’s only for the US, but still very cool: wind map site
- Word Dynamo: How many words do you know?
Also, this is a video of a guy fashioning some molten glass into a horse in under two minutes. Yeah, it’s impressive.