How about a nice, hot drink?

These kettles are inspiring!

What do you see?

Incredible snowdog

He's huge!

Weird, beautiful dress

This is an incredible dress! It was designed by Elodie Le-Prunennec.

Not an easy craft!

View sent me a link to a Brazilian Facebook post featuring this video. I had to do my homework and find it on YouTube so it could be shared on the blog. Thanks, View, it was worth it!

Taking a second look at everyday things

Illustrator Tineke Meirink creates an alternative reality by taking photos of everyday things that don't normally deserve a second look and adding her own twist. The results are surprising and amusing.

Interesting old photos

A very creative way to keep dry during some floods in Paris, 1924.

Back in 1929, somebody designed wooden swimming costumes for added buoyancy.

Here are some strange competitions of the 1930's: pretty ankles in England, and lovely eyes in Florida.

A "lightweight" personal, portable TV set, from 1967.

Finally, in 1983, a black policeman protects a certain individual from an angry crowd. A case of white lives matter?

Feast your eyes on these beauties

It was too cloudy over here last night, so we have to content with pictures from the internet...

    Granada, Spain 

    NYC, USA 

    Fremantle, Australia 

    Somewhere in Hungary 

    Hanoi, Vietnam 

    Lawrence, Kansas, USA 

Stacking logs the creative way

    OINK!

Take a guess!

Can you guess what these things are? They've everyday things, but seen through a microscope. I'll give you answers later...

A very unusual published physicist

I found this amusing article and had to share it with you...

Jack H. Hetherington was a professor of physics at Michigan State University in 1975, when he finished what would become an influential physics paper, an in-depth exploration of atomic behavior at different temperatures.

   

He was all set to send it to Physical Review Letters, but before he dispatched it, Hetherington gave the paper to a colleague to get one one last set of eyes on the piece. This is when he ran into a strange problem. Hetherington had used the royal "we" throughout the paper. As his colleague pointed out, Physical Review Letters generally only published papers using plural pronouns and adjectives like “we” and “our” if the paper had multiple authors.

Hetherington couldn’t have simply done a find-and-replace to correct the offending articles as it was the year 1975 and the whole paper had been produced on a typewriter.

Unwilling to change all the pronouns, Hetherington portrayed F.D.C. Willard as one of his colleagues at Michigan State and submitted the paper, which was published in issue 35 of Physical Review Letters.

F.D.C. Willard was Hetherington's cat, Chester. Of course just listing “Chester” as a co-author probably wouldn’t fly, so he invented the name F.D.C. Willard. The “F.D.C.” stood for “Felix Domesticus, Chester." Willard had been the name of Chester’s father.

 

[Source: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1975-a-cat-coauthored-a-physics-paper]

We haven't changed so much, after all

Nomads of Mongolia: a vanishing lifestyle

We've been watching Marco Polo on Netflix, where the nomadic lifestyle of the Mongol peoples was already an issue, as Kublai Khan had settled in a palace after conquering China. There are some very small communities still surviving the advance of the modern, urban lifestyle now prevalent in the region...

All photographs by Jeroen Toirkens.