Monday, October 16, 2023

Miss Cellania's Links

Nobel disease: Why some of the world’s greatest scientists eventually go crazy. (via Strange Company)

Our 35 Best Apple Desserts. I'm going straight for the apple crisp for one.

Unmasking Banksy – the street artist is not one man but a whole brand of people. (via Damn Interesting)

Pulling Off the Invisible Man Costume.

The Rebelle is one of the toughest off-road rallies in the world. And it's only for women.

Make This Fallout Shelter–Friendly 1960s Ham Spread. Housewives were expected to keep up their family duties even during nuclear war.

Adrian Carton de Wiart: The Most Battle-Scarred Soldier. No matter how he was wounded, he always talked his way back to the front lines.

5 Concepts Everyone Takes Seriously But Were Proposed As Jokes.

Finish Drawing the Cat. It seems pretty easy, since all you have to do is pretty much connect the lines, but even that simple step was beyond some people.

4 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Thanks for that article on Banksy! I've often suspected the artist is a collective, not an individual, at least insofar as the actual production of the street art goes. There may be only one mind behind the designs. The legal issues of crime and copyright are fascinating! I've also wondered where all that money goes. Is Banksy simply accumulating private wealth? Why isn't there a Banksy Charitable Foundation to alleviate injustice and suffering in the world?

gwdMaine said...

Big fan of cranberries and bookmarked a bunch of apple recipes for future use (haven't had a Dutch Apple Pie in years). Thanks!

Bicycle Bill said...

re: The trolley problem...

Wait until the first set of wheels have cleared the switch, then throw the switch.  The second set of wheels will go down the other track.   As the two tracks diverge, the trolley will not be to follow both paths and remain on the rails.  It will derail, thus saving everybody.

...Unless the diverging track quickly turns so that it runs parallel to the second one, like a passing siding on a railroad's main line. In this case the trolley's wheelsets MIGHT remain on the rails, and you end up wiping out everybody.

-"BB"-

xoxoxoBruce said...

But if you wipe out everybody there's no witnesses so you're clean.

Any one of the Apple Crisps sounds great but there was some very tempting other items on that list.

The housewife may resent family duty during a war but that's no excuse for serving green ham.

Daylight saving was proposed as a joke? I don't think so.