Why Texas happened
Vox made a fantastic 7min version of how and why the power outage of Texas happened in case you don’t have time to read the book on America’s Grid I talked about previously.
But also: What are you doing that you don’t have time to read in a pandemic? And can I join?
Dreaming of being on the road
I do a lot of driving for work but I still want to be on the open road as soon as it is safe again.
A life like this is certainly not unheard of here in Europe but you hear about it much less at least in this way. The closest I know of is a trailer park in my hometown called “Bambule” that sadly is no more that had some RVs and construction containers on wheels.
See through history
Thanks to very low and layered x-ray scans reseachers were able to digitally unfold a letter from 1697 without it being destroyed by doing it physically.
I don’t know about you but this is very cool to me. Imagine what this means to water damaged books or overpainted or damaged art that can’t be restored by traditional means.
An Island Getaway
We could all use some time away so here’s my little island getaway out in Bali I often dream of going because look at it, then look at the price, then look at it again.
ゴジラ, ゴジラ, GO!
I'm getting VERY emotional watching these new teasers and thinking back to the last two Godzilla movies.
They are each for itself a tour de force the last one made me cry so much Pixar called and asked if those tears where actually for them. Disney wanted to make sure I still had some left for the WandaVision finale. I did.
ART CORNER
Come join me watching Banksy create art on the wall of a prison that once housed Oscar Wilde to the soothing voice of Bob Ross.
PUPPET SHOWS
And for things that made me happy to no end this week:
The Barbarian and the Troll
I’m an absolute sucker when it comes to traditional puppet shows.
Muppets, Sesame Street, the amazing work of Glove and Boots … inject it into my veins. So imagine how happy I was to hear about what is basically Red Sonja but with puppets on an actual big channel!