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Formula One Cars Are Fast. Like Super Fast.

Speaking of what fast looks like, here’s a pair of synced videos that show just how fast F1 cars are. On the left are drivers participating in a track day, that is, normal folks who want to drive their cars fast on a real race course. A couple of them look like actual GT car...

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Yawns

If you’re like most people, you probably started yawning as soon as you read the title of this post and saw the video’s thumbnail. And then yawned like two or three times watching it. That’s because a) yawning is contagious, and b) that video is chock-a-block with clips of people and animals yawning.

Yawning is so weird. It’s even a strange word. Yaaaaawwwwwnnnn. And like I mentioned, it’s contagious. In fact, it’s so contagious that even reading or overhearing someone talking about yawning can cause you to yawn. Why the hell do we do this weird thing? Perhaps to cool our brains.

(via the kid should see this)

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

In 1996, Harper’s published a long piece by David Foster Wallace called Shipping Out, in which Wallace, a decidedly non-luxury cruise person, goes on a week-long luxury cruise in the Caribbean. I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an al...

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What Is Juneteenth and Why Does It Matter?

Historian Heather Cox Richardson is now doing visual versions of her daily newsletter on YouTube. Yesterday’s video explains the origins and significance of Juneteenth. Black people in Galveston met the news Order No. 3 brought with celebrations in the streets, but emanc...

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When In Rome

Ok, having been all over the western Mediterranean for the past two weeks, I’m back. *sigh* Here, without comment or context (I know, I know), are some of the things I saw: Not pictured: a bunch of amazing food we ate over the course of the trip. Tags: Jason Kottke · photography · Rome · travel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my favorite sculpture, Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina. A masterpiece. The photos both do and do not do it justice — so grateful to get to see it in person. Tags: art · Bernini · Rome · sculpture · travel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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This Is Your Captain Speaking…

waves created in the wake of a ferry boat

Hey, folks. I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be away from the site for a couple of weeks for a family vacation. No guest editor or anything…just going off the air for a much needed rest. Wishing everyone well and I will see you in mid-June.

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Beautiful Drone Footage of an Alaskan Salmon Migration

If you can stop gawping at Alaska’s gorgeous scenery long enough, you can witness drone footage of a whole lot of salmon migrating upstream from Lake Iliamna1 to spawn. (via digg)

  1. Lake Iliamna is home to the supposed Iliamna Lake Monster, a beast “10-30 feet in length with a square-like head that is used to place blunt force unto things such as small boats”. Where’s the drone footage of that?!

[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2016.]

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