Fun – A Honey of an Anklet

TIL about railroad worms

An oldie but a goodie: “Nasal bioluminescence in reindeer, Rangifer tarandus rubens,” by Martin Kemp.

There has been unwarranted confusion about the first record…

Troubling

Just how many days would it take to fill USS Enterprise with tribbles? Hodnett et al. have the answer.

We estimated the volume of a tribble to be 3.23⨉10^-3 m³. We did this by measuring a replica tribble, and assuming that a tribble is roughly cylindrical.

(via Jennifer Ouellette.)

Din-din!

Perfect. ‘”Warren Zevon’s ‘Werewolves of London'” by James Joyce’ by Anthony Sams.

Open ended

The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of plans for 3-d printable thingummies that allow you to connect your Tinkertoy spools to your Lincoln Logs, or your Lego bricks to your K’Nex.

R. L. May

Long-overlooked research explains the nature of Rudolph’s glow, and its fitness for his habitat.

The records for 25 December 1949 indicate a worldwide fog of unprecedented extent. Claus’ adoption of Rudolph and cultivation of a pure-breeding strain facilitated his navigational tasks during the smogs that beset developed countries in the 1950s and 1960s.

Some links: 18 again

An oldie but a goodie, saved from linkrot: Thomas the NJ Transit train.

Happy

Featuring (now) full-time colleagues Alex and Maanvi.

And check out the cameo by Stacey at 1:39.

And about that milk carton…

It turns out that here at NPR, we will edit anything, even a cartoon from The New Yorker. This exchange was posted on the 4th-floor bulletin board by the audio engineers’ mailboxes.