Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

Magnificent Photography of Engineering in Action.

A History of Man-Eaters. That is, big cats.

The Finkbeiner Test, on writing about female scientists. (via Not Exactly Rocket Science)

The Essence of a Sniff. An overview of research on the sense of smell. 

The Ridiculously Happy Gecko Test. If that one smiled as big as these 22 geckos, he'd sell more insurance.

See how the Jurrasic Park crew designed and built the frill-necked Dilophosaurus that started out cute and then killed Newman. They called it "the Spitter."

A new study finds monkeys judge others the same way people do. They know and remember who is selfish or mean.

Can Doritos Locos Tacos Save America? Taco Bell is bucking the recession by offering a product people really want.

A Talking Cat!?! is The Room of anthropomorphic animal movies featuring Eric Roberts. The A.V. Club deconstructs Roberts' career arc and an awful movie they make me want to see.

How to Run a Publication That Isn’t Sexist. One magazine took the time and effort to find out what caused male contributors to outnumber female contributors -and then fixed it.

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