Get a time-traveller’s guide to #medieval #Europe, some timeless words from Albert Camus, a hand-sewn heart, homely and warming porridge meals, bewitching cat-eye makeup and much more. Welcome to edition #129 of #InterestingThings by #ContentCatnip
Weird gigantic goose fossil found in Australia
Just when you thought Australia’s megafauna couldn’t get any weirder – along comes a gigantic mega goose weighing 230 kilos.
Found in South Australia’s Lake Callabonna, an intact skull of the ancient megafauna bird, Genyornis newtoni, has finally been unearthed. This paints a vivid picture of this prehistoric giant.
The 230kg bird would have towered over today’s extant species. This extraordinary discovery reveals Genyornis had a powerful bite force, ideal for crushing plants and fruit, and a unique casque atop its head, suggesting it thrived in aquatic habitats. Read more at Cosmos Magazine.
American Science and Surplus
If neurodivergence was a shop, it would be this place. Via gregly on Mastodon
A time-travellers guide to medieval Europe
Always imagine what it would be like to time-travel to medieval Europe or medieval Asia and how this would look?
This unique guide speaks to ‘you’ the viewer as though you are about to embark on a trip of a lifetime (or rather a millennium). Answering questions like, would you need to get a vaccination? what should or shouldn’t you say to the locals? etc. History through these terms is seen through new and exciting eyes…highly recommended!!
Reflections on Time with No Girl is An island // Lani V Cox
Within Me by Albert Camus
A dear friend of mine Rajan shared this with me when he realised I was feeling exhausted and burnt out, it helped me a lot. I know a lot of this quote is well-known and no doubt you’ve heard parts of it before…to me it still packs a punch when read as a whole thing:
In the midst of hate, I found there was,
within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was,
within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was,
within me, an invincible calm…
In the midst of winter, I found there was,
within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that
no matter how hard the world pushes against me,
within me, there’s something stronger –
something better, pushing right back.
– Albert Camus
Canadian macrame artist Janis Ledwell-Hunt’s intriguing growing heart
The surface of each of my sculptures is composed of thousands of tiny knots. Like nature, knots carry their metaphorical baggage with a certain nobility. Knots are sensible; they follow a logic; they grant security and safety if tied well; they repeat to form hypnotic, structured, geometric patterns; they tie together all loose ends; they truly can save us from a very bad day. But I prefer to subvert the seeming safety of knots in order to wrestle with their subtext. Knots are formed by tension: they’re constricted little clusters that are characteristically difficult to undo once fastened; and they are a means of hardening an otherwise soft and pliable fiber. In other words, knots express a relationship that is both felicitous and punitive.
Janis Ledwell-Hunt on her website
Wagon Christ – Studio Session 1
A throwback mix to the 90’s with plenty of remixed classics from this era given a magical and funky trip-hop and house treatment.
Miserable people trust other people too much with their futures
The one thing all miserable people have in common is they trust others too much with their future. They go to school, get a job, and marry someone without questioning if they chose that path. They trust their doctors more than their body. They give up before they’ve even gotten started.
Then they wake up one day, ten years later and ask themselves, “What have I done?”
If you look around and see that 99% of people are unhappy, stop doing what they’re doing.
Back in 2017, after I heard Jordan Peterson say, “The amount of meaning in your life is directly related to the amount of responsibility you’re willing to take on,” I was never the same person again. I pursued that truth relentlessly and can report back now that he was 100% correct.
A cutaway guide to what a house looks like in a New Delhi slum
I see things like this and it reminds me how petty, self-absorbed and comfortable my own life is. I feel sad for these people and also grateful for my own life and my own warm and comfortable shelter when I see this.
Italian House Mix from 1989-1993
Pure bliss and incredibly uplifting and chilled out. I hope you will enjoy it.
Terrible real estate photos
There’s is a lot going on in these photos. If a home represents the inner state of mind…these places are weird and interesting! What do you think?
Softening towards life by Susana Cabaço
Irrespective of your current challenges, you can always choose to return to your innate softness of being. Soften to your essence that is soft by nature. When you do so, your soft beingness extends into your reality, and life too softens for you.
Comforting oatmeal recipes from Pick Up Limes
I love oatmeal and to be honest I could have it at any time of the day not just breakfast, these remixe on the classic outmeal breakfast look amazing…interesting to see some savoury takes on it.
How to create cat eye makeup
A charming vintage poster showing you how to create cat eye makeup. Very helpful!
Via Ms Adrian Black on Twitter
Thorns by Gary Ruddell (1988)
This macabre vintage science fiction painting captures so much human and alien emotion, note the vertical tear drops on the alien’s head! A mind-blowing artwork by Gary Ruddell from a short novella series by Robert Silverberg. Via Sci-Fi Art on Twitter
Evening stroll by contemporary UK painter Cath Read
I love the cosy swirling water and dancing lamp light over the little town, it makes me want to visit the town depicted in the painting.
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required…. It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.
Did you enjoy this collection? let me know what you think of it below. Thank you for reading my dear friends!
Content Catnip 
There is so much to see that we didn’t know we needed to see 🙂
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I love that YouTube channel, Pick Up Limes. Thanks for sharing ❤️
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