Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we've got the blues!
The eternal mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
When the CIA tried to turn animals into assassins. Because, CIA.
There's an "underwater staircase" in the Baltic Sea, and scientists are a bit freaked out.
A lot of strange things go on in Dulce, New Mexico.
It turns out that ChatGPT is a lousy therapist. Golly, there's a shocker.
The Enlightenment's philosophical gravediggers.
A Kansas UFO incident.
Why "Jack" became a nickname for "John."
Convicts take a brutal journey to Australia.
The slow death of the semicolon.
Why Tokyo has "third-party toilet consultants."
We now have an idea of what Denisovans looked like.
A British MP's museum.
The tribe that doesn't dance, sing, or make fire.
A column wondering why birds haven't developed a complex culture. I dunno, maybe it's because they have more sense than we do.
The "most coveted and desirable book in the world."
The magic of feathers.
"Jaws" turns 50.
The science behind near-death experiences.
A brief history of Americans being abducted by aliens.
The very weird murder of "God's banker."
Panic in Mattoon: A Mad Gasser or mass hysteria?
The birth of "Mark Twain."
The Case of the Murdered Coachman.
The war dead of St. Paul's Cathedral.
The "General Slocum" disaster.
The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.
A philosopher's "repugnant conclusion."
The theory that we're not the first advanced civilization.
Nothing to see here, just mysterious radio pulses coming from beneath Antarctica's ice.
The "Holy Grail" of shipwrecks.
Why Mars is currently confusing scientists.
A forgotten Founding Father.
Ancient treasure that's really out-of-this-world.
The discovery of an ancient underwater settlement.
A very weird ghost story from ancient Greece.
The cattiest countries in Europe.
A club for bores.
A brief history of pizza.
When you think you're getting a marriage proposal, and it turns out to be a book deal instead.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a strange figure from Indian history. In the meantime, here's Stevie:
It strikes me as rather sad that the Paraguayan tribe doesn't know how to make fire... I'm still not satisfied about the cause of the jumping French lumberjacks; if it is an ingrained expression learned in a small community - just stop doing it! I recall reading of the death of Calvi; surely there as to have been a movie or tv series made abut this convoluted mess. And on the subject of convoluted mess: Norfolk Island; it sounds like a change of plan every time a government changed. And the semi-colon will never die so long as I live!
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