Linkdump 05-03-2016
- Lost in the mists of time! Anglo-Saxon island is discovered...in a field near Louth | Lincolnshire Echo
Forgotten by the time of Domesday.
- Neglected Utopia: Photographer explores the forgotten modernist estates of Paris | Creative Boom
Shades of Gernsback
- 'Planet of the Apes': Scientists believe modern humans lived among other ancient human species - ABC News
"There may be more accidental reasons we are still here and they are not, because they have all gone and we are left alone."
- MentalHealthError: an exception occurred. — Kenneth Reitz
A cautionary tale. I am paying attention.
- 9 Things That Happen To Your Body When You Stop Having Sex | Bustle
This situation is rapidly on track to becoming a medical emergency.
- Ontario Is The Latest Place To Test A Basic-Income Guarantee | Co.Exist
"The concept of paying everyone so nobody is poor is catching on."
- Wordlady: National Glamour Day
TIL: "grammar" and "glamour" (in both senses) are cognate. I feel much more stylish now. And it's all Walter Scott's fault.
- Can an artist ever really ‘own’ a colour? | The Guardian
It's like, how much more black could it be? And the answer is, none. None more black.
- Scientists gear up to drill into ‘ground zero’ of the impact that killed the dinosaurs | AAAS
Digging up Chicxulub, disinterring the comet that caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. What could possibly go wrong. Paging Professor Quatermass.