Monday, February 17, 2020

Miss Cellania's Links

How to Leave Your Lover with Lemons. Handing someone a lemon for romantic rejection was one of those things everyone understood in the first part of the 20th century, but seems rather obscure now. (via Nag on the Lake)

1889: The Cats and Dog That Saved 37 Lives. The moral of the story is that you need to know what a natural gas leak smells like, and it's good to have pets. (via Strange Company)

So How Did the Heart Become the Symbol of Love Anyway? 

Target's Delivery App Workers Describe a Culture of Retaliation and Fear. "...every single person is losing money on the new pay scale.” But at least the unemployment figures are down. (via Metafilter)

The Bizarre Tale of the Pizza Collar Bomber. Even if you remember it from the news, you don't know the whole story.

A great idea to make the coffee corner a more social place.

Can we stop tiptoeing around the fact that Trump is behaving like a dictator?   

Printing Money is a visualization of how fast you earn, how others earn, and how corporations earn. Scroll down and hang on! (via Kottke)

Acceptance emails were sent out for the 50 slots at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. To all 364 finalists. Oops. (via reddit)

A blast from the past (2012): 8 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains.

3 comments:

Daddy-O said...

Natural gas is colorless and odorless, so an odorant is added to it for safety reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer#Natural_gas_odorizers

Daddy-O said...

I couldn't figure out exactly what gas the cats saved people from, but it was probably a manufactured gas like coal gas or oil gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_lighting

Miss Cellania said...

According to the linked article, "New York City’s gas history began in 1823, when the New York Gas Light Company became the state’s first manufactured gas company. Manufactured gas was a process that used various forms of wood resin (and later, coal) as opposed to natural gas."