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Clowns at the circus

Short recommendations, reviews, and cautionary tales about horror in fiction (mostly movies). Read through the archives and subscribe here.

• People Who Love War Hate Cities
  "Cities are where we see each other.  People who don’t want to see hate that."
• Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
  How much do you know about lines?
• The Experimental City
  Documentary on Minnesota's failed attempt at a city of the future in the late 1960's.
• We Need To Talk: Marriage Counseling with Capitalism Itself
  "Humanity, how are you doing on this beautiful Monday?"
• Lights at Sea
  Amazing visualization of European lighthouses showing light color, actual pattern, and radius of visibility.
• It Takes 1.71 Days to Poop Out a Lego
  An interesting data point, for sure, but this metric may be the best part: Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score.
• Literature Clock
  The exact time of day, pulled from books.
• COVID Standard Time
  Einstein confirms.
• Sonifying Ganymede
  Mapping magnetic fields to the audio spectrum.
• Hear the new sounds that show life returning in these coral reefs
  So pretty you often don't stop to listen.