Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Miss Cellania's Links

Trump’s Appeasement Summit with Putin.

How Many Nukes Would It Take to Send the Earth Spiraling Off Into the Sun? More than we have now, but we can still easily destroy ourselves.
11 Exercises That Will Strengthen Your Attention. Building useful habits will make you more observant.

The Extraordinary Life of Martha Gellhorn, the Woman Ernest Hemingway Tried to Erase. She was the only woman on the beach at Normandy during the D-Day invasion.

Dirty, Dishonest, and Badly Behaved: Sophia Jarvis, Victorian Maid. Did she stand a chance in court against her abusive employer?

Trial runs for fascism are in full flow. We're in the test marketing phase, and how we respond will turn history.

5 Crazy True Crime Stories Involving Video Games.

A Lost Stanley Kubrick Screenplay has Apparently Been Found. It's a 1956 treatment of a 1913 novella that we'll probably never see produced.

For a Brief, Glorious Moment, Camera-Wielding Pigeons Spied From Above. Julius Neubronner lost a pigeon and developed avian photography.

United States of Protest: A Citizen's Guide to 250 Years of Resistance. (via Nag on the Lake)

A blast from the past (2011): Pyrophonia: Music on Fire.

1 comment:

Bruce said...

What an interesting story about Martha Gellhorn. I'm surprised I've never heard of her. She was way ahead of her time.