Category: Daily Links

‘Some Antarctic orcas use the cunning tactic of regularly hunting in packs and making waves to wash seals off floating ice, researchers have confirmed.’

At the British Library, a fabulous photograph of men working in a Cornish mine in the 1890s.

A recording of sheep-dog calls from 1911.

‘neurobiologists have discovered that homosexuality can be turned on or off in fruit flies… by giving a drug that changes the way the flies’ sensory circuits react to pheromones.’

via things magazine: A remarkable set of photos taken at a south London school in the late 70s.

I promise not to make a habit of posting links to lolcats, but these ones made me giggle.

via things magazine: ‘we aim to produce a comprehensive on-line collection of nineteenth-century New Zealand novels.’ Which is an admirable endeavour even if it doesn’t appeal to me.

via Coudal: ‘Over the past few years I have walked thousands of kilometres through the streets of every part of London photographing what I thought might make interesting photographs.’

‘Fernando Brizio, a Portuguese Designer, created ‘Painting with Giotto #1′ in 2005: a vase which was made by embedding felt tip pens into the edge of a ceramic bowl. The resulting bleed of colors makes each vase unique.’

trees, trees, trees.

‘September 15, 1922. Clarence E. Sherrell, son of the Washington, D.C., super- intendent of public buildings.’ photo of boy doing street-luge at Shorpy.