When Given Colored Construction Paper, Wasps Build Rainbow Colored Nests.
Goat Rituals and Tree-Trunk Gravestones: The Peculiar History of Life Insurance. Related: How Maritime Insurance Built Ancient Rome.
You can now Rent Julia Child’s Provencale Kitchen as she Left It, via Airbnb.
Advice from 1658: How to Give Up Wine.
Check Out All the Largest Flying Boats in History.
How To Dress For Success And To Get A Man: A 1967 Guide. Related: “Women are teachable”: 1940’s booklet to “assist male bosses in supervising their new female employees”.
ICYMI, Friday’s links are here, and include the tax implications of the zombie apocalypse, a gallery of vintage mechanical calculators, the British plan for a chicken-heated nuclear bomb. a giant flesh-eating koala , and why UPS trucks don’t turn left.
Monday links