Oh, gosh; where to begin?
A dear friend has started a tumblr account featuring recipes prepared from a cookbook from 1903. i was recently accused of making a 'wild guess' regarding oven temperature equivalents: the recipe called for a 'slow oven', and i recommended 300 degrees Fahrenheit; this was not a wild guess. One of my favorite cookie recipes is for tea cakes (basically sugar cookies) from a 1910s cookbook that belonged to my great-grandmother (my dad's mom's mom), and i once looked up what a 'very hot oven' is (450-500 degrees F, which ranks up there with Dobos tortes as being the hottest oven requirement i've used). Anyhow, here is a listing of oven equivalencies, and, somewhat surprisingly, a poem.
My labmate linked this picture of a dog seemingly floating in space today; my immediate response was, 'Is that photoshopped?' Looking around, there were quite a number of Soviet space dogs, but the most recent space animals have not included canines. The picture at the very start of the wikipedia article features a small monkey ( known as Miss Baker, who, interestingly, became the longest lived squirrel monkey at 27) sitting on a small rocket. It seems possible but unlikely that the rocket was the size featured in the picture, as the monkey would be crammed in there ('screaming monkey tube in space!'), but it turns out, the actual rocket was big enough for multiple monkeys.
Jack delightfully linked this collection of photographs of women painted as skeletons. Yes!
Which brings us to ear piercings and Harrison Ford. The ever-excellent Jimmy Fallon recently had his ear pierced on set by Harrison Ford (who was probably there promoting Ender's Game? Then the ear thing just... happened?) Anyhow, within that clip, Jimmy states that Mr. Ford has had his ear pierced for a long time now, and i had to google that to confirm. Yup (and apparently he DOES have a stance on tattoos). As recounted in a few different places, supposedly Mr. Ford was out at a birthday lunch in 1997 with Jimmy Buffet and Ed Bradley, both of whom have their ear(s) pierced, and was so inspired to dash by the girls' accessory store Claire's after lunch to have his own done.
Also from Mr. Ford's wikipedia page, he has two organisms named for him (a spider and an ant, due to his work in conservation). Splashing over to the wikipedia page List of Organisms Named for Famous People is highly amusing due to the side-by-side pictures of famous humans and their namesakes. That page arced over to a very detailed compilation of organisms-named-for-humans page, which has some fascinating entries and is arranged by the occupation of the famous person, though the best entries might be found in the 'other' category.
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