Disgusting yet delightful

• Where does time go? A handy test. (via)

• Bee-keeping in ancient Egypt (via)

• Read an excerpt from Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Seems like a rather disgusting but delightfully morbid book (see contents): "The heads look like rubber Halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner." (via)

• Maps from ancient times to the present day (via)

• This huge tree is more than 2.000 years old, and here's another tree swallowing a sign (via 1, 2)

• Beautiful exotic fish drawings by Louis Renard (from Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, que l'on trouve autour des isles Moluques et sur les côtes des terres australes,  1719). Heh. (via)

• Castles of Britain photo gallery (via)

• Nuclear nightmares: twenty years since Chernobyl (via)