Thursday, June 09, 2016

Miss Cellania's Links

Ig® Nobel Limericks: Farting, Dead Fish, and Confounding Talk.  

The media's racial double standard in covering sexual assault cases, in 2 tweets. (via a comment at Boing Boing)

Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry? (via the Presurfer)

The Incredibly Weird Story Behind Tetris. And there’s extra trivia about the game in the same post.

Seventy Years Later, Bikini Atoll May Still Be Too Radioactive For Resettlement. The islanders have been waiting all this time to go home again.

An Ivy League professor explains chaos theory, the prisoner's dilemma, and why math isn't really boring. It all has to do with the way the universe is organized.

Did the Ancient Greeks Invent Rodeo? The athletes of ancient Crete left artistic evidence of bull-leaping.

How to protect your Facebook and Twitter accounts from hackers. A few clicks can save you grief down the road.

How the Jukebox Got Its Groove. Louis Glass married recorded music and vending machines, and things were never the same.

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