Monday, October 05, 2015

Miss Cellania's Links

Black and White: The Twilight Zone. The story of Rod Serling’s masterpiece.

Gold Rush California Was Much More Expensive Than Today’s Tech-Boom California.

Rise of the Synthesizer: How an Electronics Whiz Kid Gave the 1980s Its Signature Sound.

How NASA and Ridley Scott Collaborated to Make The Martian.

The American Society for Microbiology held an art contest in which microbiologists created artworks by growing microbes in an agar medium in Petri dishes. The results of the Agar Art contest are stunning! (via Metafilter)

The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland. They don’t start reading until age seven or so, but still manage to outperform US students at fifteen. 

Universal Monsters: How The Wolf Man Created The First Cinematic Universe. Monster crossovers just gave of more of what we loved to see.

How are viruses, viroids and prions related? And what are the differences between them?

Are you witty and sophisticated? You may not want to admit it after learning the origins of the words in Larry Paros’ comic panels.

Can anything stop the crippling rise of housing prices? We can reform housing policy, or we could live in tents until the madness stops.

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