Another week means another healthy does of the weird and wonderful.
A beautiful piece on pets and life. What my dog taught me about mortality.
Forget the Euros, forget the Copa America, it’s that time of year again - The Excel World Championship! The Verge wrote a good piece on the event (albeit in a heinous colour scheme), and a reminder that the organisation’s YouTube channel does provide full coverage and highlights.
It’s also that time of year whereby The Carbuncle Cup names what they deem to be the ‘very worst new building in Britain’.
Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a truck-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where it goes after that remains largely unknown. But a new study has proven the concept of monitoring floating plastic litter using satellites.
How do you simultaneously show a person from front-on while also showing what they’re watching on a screen? You can’t really without an awkward, unnatural setup but that hasn’t stopped it being a long-standing staple of professional wrestling.