Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Walk? Email Glenn!
- Someone at the WWF had the neat idea to strap a camera to a sea turtle and catch a native’s view of the Great Barrier Reef.
- Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell have written or are writing books that will be released for public consumption in one hundred years, after the forest to print them on has grown.
- The global Jewish population is almost as numerous as it was before the Holocaust. Almost. Not quite. Seventy years later.
- Self-driving cars drive a little like your grandma.
- Gateway tabletop games to convert non-fans. I can say that I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve played from this list, though it has been kind of a while since I’ve had a round of Dominion or Carcassonne.
- Graffiti artists and authorities can have fun with each other.
- This Week in Headlines: Woman gives birth, fights off bees, starts wildfire in Northern California. This Week in Journalistic Excellence: “The bees wanted the placenta, she said with a chuckle.”
- RIP Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia during the early stages of the Holocaust.
- In 1831 an island suddenly appeared in the middle of the Mediterranean, causing a brief international scuffle as four nations tried to lay claim to it before it disappeared and everyone kind of skulked off. The ghost island presents an amusing historical anecdote, but then went on to confirm theories about how our planet’s geology works. Thanks, lava!
- In the US, cops kill someone with mental illness every 36 hours.
- Before the advent of radio navigation for airplanes, a system of huge arrows planted on the ground was planned to guide planes across the US.
- This Week in Poetry: There’s nothing in this cave worth dying for.
- Naoto Matsumura lives in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear-power disaster in order to care for the animals left behind when the humans evacuated.
- This to That tells you how to glue things to other things. I leave this here for all your gluey needs. Don’t say the Walk never did nothing for ya.
- Now I just want to see Devonian Park.
- This Week in TV Weather: broadcasters have to be prepared to deal with all manner of glitches on the air.
- Our constellations are connect-the-dots drawings people made long ago based on how stars appear in our skies. Due to the motion of stars way out where they actually are, the shapes of the constellations have changed, and will continue to do so.
- The New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto next week, giving us our closest look at it. It’s already providing new information as it approaches, though, including the fact that Pluto is red.
- This Week in Interior Decorating: your bed deserves to be decked out with the wonders of the cosmos.
