Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Miss Cellania's Links

We should be celebrating the 2nd of July. 

This Is How Mel Brooks Kept the Crew From Laughing While Making Blazing Saddles

In 1965, a young Scottish man named Angus Barbieri walked into the University of Dundee hospital with an extraordinary request: “I want to stop eating—completely.” He still holds the record for the longest fast. 

The Delicious, Life-Saving Joys of the ‘Trad Trans’ Lifestyle

The other heroes of the space race: Ham the chimpanzee never got over the ordeal. (via Damn Interesting

Professor has mental breakdown and accuses class of cheating. This eventually goes completely off the rails. (via Memo of the Air

Know Your ICE Agent. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug. 

Murder, she measured: The impressive science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons

The Image today was not generated, but is a photo of a wire sculpture from Tom Kaufmann at Your Name Rings a Bell. He sent me this quite a few years ago, and he'll make one for you, too! 

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