Laura E. HallHappy Friday! It's time for my end-of-week links roundup, a collecting of interesting stuff I've seen or read over the last week
Today: sewer rats, vintage video games, forever toys, fancy pigeons, and the entrance to hell 🐀 👾 🧱 🦆 🔥
1) A look at plastic Lego bricks as a “forever toy”
“The LEGO Group estimates that about 97% of all LEGO set consumers hold onto their bricks or pass them on to families, but the LEGO Group also worries about the remaining 3%, and that fuels the company’s deep investment in environmental sustainability efforts.”
https://padandpixel.com/sustainability-and-the-everlasting-lego-brick/
2) Gaze upon these fancy pigeons from 1906
3) This comprehensive 2023 review of sewer rat ecology (via Dezene Huber https://ecoevo.social/@dezene/110658249053276051)
Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-022-01292-x
Dezene Huber 🌻 (@[email protected])
You probably don't think about #sewer #rat #ecology. Or rather, you probably don't want to think about it. But Guo et al. (2023) did in this comprehensive review. This type of work is important for #public #health and control of #invasive #species. Rats prefer: 🐀 narrow pipes, 🐀 low water flow, 🐀 older construction materials, 🐀 disrepair leading to nooks and crannies, 🐀 being near to houses and restaurants, 🐀 organic matter, for instance from sink grinders. 🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-022-01292-x
4) The YouTube channel NoClip is starting a crowdfunding project to digitize and archive VHS tapes containing video game history, including recordings of live events, trailers, and awards shows
We Found & Saved 10 YEARS of Lost Video Game History
Support us on Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/noclipCheck out the archive ► https://www.youtube.com/@nocliparchiveCheck out our Archive.org page ► https://...
5) Archaeologists in Oaxaca, Mexico have found what may be the entrance to Lyobaa, a legendary, labyrinthine underground temple believed by the Zapotec to be the entrance to the underworld
I say go ahead and open it
#Mexico #Archaeology #Zapotec #Mythology #Underworld #Ruins #Labyrinth
Josh "cortex" Millard@lauraehall get some fucken tiny robo mice working that thing