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Happy Pride, Y'all!: This Week's Round-up of Our Fave Internet Goodies

What could be better than Soviet breakdancing, hungry otters, and space colonies?

Take a gander at this amazing collection of Marianne Breslauer's photography! Her photos of 1930's tomboys are "alluringly liberated and ahead of their time...breaking boundaries when only just a few years earlier, women were still wearing corsets." A taste of the greatness:

This video of an otter eating dinner is almost too cute to bear:[embed]https://twitter.com/mattround/status/746444050773983236[/embed]Confused about Brexit? Who isn't? This Lego Map and Timeline might help clear some things up.Use this map to listen to the deep ocean! The sounds from Puako are particularly beautiful.Are you a fan of sci-fi? Well, you'll probably be as stoked as we are to learn of the huge archive of IF Magazine over at the Internet Archive. What's better than lounging in front of the A/C with a good space opera? Lounging in front of the A/C with hundreds of space operas!Soviet breakdancing - what could be better? Check out these sweet videos hailing from East Germany and Latvia:[embed]https://youtu.be/WLpTntfPDFQ[/embed][embed]https://youtu.be/eca1takXxeE[/embed]Dinahmoe Labs' Plink, a "multiplayer music experience," is unbelievably fun and addicting. Procrastinators, meet your best friend (or worst enemy!!)This map of underwater internet cables is super fascinating, especially if you're a major internet nerd like us! Ever wonder who owns the internet cable running from the East Coast of the US down through South America? Apparently, that cable is named GlobeNet and it's owned by BTG Pactual. The more you know!Speaking of stuff for nerds, check out this visual dictionary/ thesaurus/ "interactive lexicon." Did you know that "butterfly" is also a verb? It means "to flirt!"Have you ever heard of Gerard O’Neill? He wanted to build vast human settlements in space. Although he wasn’t the first to imagine humans living there, he was the first to come up with technologically feasible designs for habitats. Over the course of his career, O’Neill would turn skeptics into true believers, find support from NASA, and start a social movement toward the goal of building human colonies in space. Here are some of his designs:

This video is pretty great too:[embed]https://youtu.be/vUa2cuJglJM?t=1s[/embed]

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