Friday, October 01, 2021

Miss Cellania's Links

Vote for the Fattest Bear in the 2021 Fat Bear Week Tournament. The daily matchups will continue through October 5, and the winner will be announced a few days later. 

Remembering a Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall.

New George Lucas Action Figure is a Stormtrooper.  (via Uproxx)

Five Tropes Local TV News Uses to Dehumanize Homeless People. (via Metafilter)

The Geisha who Brought Kabuki to the West. Sada Yacco's life story reads like that of Forrest Gump.

When Hundreds of Vampire-Hunting Children Invaded a Scottish Cemetery—And Helped Spur a Comic Book Ban.

Hungarian Architecture: The Kádár Cube House. (via Nag on the Lake)

All Identical Twins Carry a Common Factor in their Genes. (via Damn Interesting

The World's Best Airlines.  Since no US-based airline made the top ten, there's a separate ranking for North America. (via Digg)

A blast from the past (2019): 11 theories on the true identity of D.B. Cooper.

1 comment:

WilliamRocket said...

Best airlines, plus America's ones that are not.
New Zealand does that with it's trainee dentists, because so few indigenous people are able to pass the entrance exams, they have a special, easier test for them.
It is nuts.