“Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity.” — Jim Morrison https://culturacolectiva.com/books/10-poems-by-jim-morrison-you-must-read-to-turn-your-world-upside-down

"Imagination – whether literary, musical, visual, even scientific – supplies material for rehearsing the brain’s inexorable search for pattern and meaning. That’s why our stories don’t have to respect laws of nature: they needn’t just ponderously rehearse possible real futures." https://aeon.co/essays/imagination-isnt-the-icing-on-the-cake-of-human-cognition

My Amazon review of _A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next_ by Tom Standage

It's outstanding. Time to buy yourself a present.
https://amzn.to/3onURTB

A new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired GP who spent lockdown rummaging through boxes of hundreds of old bones. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/isle-of-wight-doctor-discovers-dinosaur-university-of-portsmouth-natural-history-museum-london-b965577.html

In which someone argues for a muppets version of the Lord of the Rings. https://theface.com/culture/the-case-for-the-muppet-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-fantasy-film

Take a tour of New York's legendary literary hangouts.
Oh, this is fun.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/26/books/writers-favorite-places-new-york.html

Contribute to Buffer's annual State of Remote Work report https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6574803/968900235779

In the 1980s workers in an English peat bog started unearthing bodies, the apparent victims of violence. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/bodies-in-the-bog-the-lindow-mysteries

A growing number of bean-to-bar producers are trying to make a more ethical product. What will it take for the rest of the industry to catch up? https://modernfarmer.com/2021/10/bean-to-bar-ethical-chocolate/

Stanley Tucci's plan for Thanksgiving starts with a Martini and only gets better from there. https://www.bonappetit.com/story/stanley-tucci-thanksgiving

"Collective narcissists, though, are often more focused on out-group prejudice than in-group loyalty."...
"This thinking can happen in seemingly any kind of assemblage: a religious, political, gender, racial, or ethnic group, but also a sports team, club, or cult. Now, she said, she’s terrified at how widely she’s finding it manifested across the globe." https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/group-narcissism/620632/

Here are 11 flowers that attract hummingbirds that you can easily add to your home garden. Worth it just for the pretty photos. https://www.treehugger.com/flowers-that-attract-hummingbirds-5194907

Owl kitty meets the Matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDRfb60nwI

During the 1910s there were few crosswalks painted on the street, and they were generally ignored by pedestrians.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

The trippy days of 1960s crochet https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-swedish-artist-who-hooked-british-rock-royalty-on-crochet/