Monday, June 29, 2026

Miss Cellania's Links

 Japan opens shrine for plush toys in Kyoto, offering memorial rites and a resting place for remains. See their website. (via Nag on the Lake

The wedding that inspired “Save the Last Dance for Me.” (via Metafilter

Peruvians say they were promised jobs in Russia, but landed on the front lines in Ukraine. (via Damn Interesting

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. (via Strange Company

The U.S. Ghost Town That Periodically Rises Out of a Lake. The tale of a town that would not stay sunken.

The Operating Room Where Anesthesia Was First Demonstrated Is Now a Landmark. But for the Men Who Claimed Credit, There Was Much Misery.  

Jump rope is hard enough, but this guy gives it style. (via Everlasting Blort

In 1980, Eastern Airlines flight attendants began to sweat drops of red. Mysteriously, this only happened to the flight attendants. (via Nag on the Lake

Trump’s Most Sinister Legacy: He’s Brought Out the Worst in America. (via Fark


1 comment:

DWVR said...

So Earth's oceans may have come, at least in large part, from the H in the atmosphere meeting the O2 in the surface magma and then forging together in the extreme heat. So where did comets get THEIR water? or does more form every time the comet passes close to the heat of the sun?