internet explorers club | mysteries: solved ✔️
Mysteries solved! The SECOND ship from Franklin’s Doomed Expedition has been found. The HMS Terror was appropriately found in Terror Bay, leading to this journalistic conversation:
Carol Off: Isn’t Terror Bay the first place you might look for HMS Terror?
Adrian Schimnowski: Well, you would think so, wouldn’t you? [Laughs] I’m laughing because HMS Erebus…the island right by the shipwreck is translated in Inuit as “the big boat is here” or “the boat sank here.”
Like the Erebus, the Terror was also found by turning to the Inuk communities, where one man, Sammy Kogvik, recalled literally seeing a ship’s mast in the middle of the ice while fishing. Let this be a lesson to include First Nations communities more in these conversations before we consider an expedition “lost.”
Mystery solved #2 is that researchers have found that albino redwoods—which was not a thing I realized existed!!!—exist to soak up pollution in the soil and protect their fellow redwoods.
In my particular venn diagram of life, I’ve now found two websites that’s dedicated to just analyzing type from science fiction movies. The Blade Runner one is surprisingly robust! Dig into the typography of the Final Frontier here. Appropriate then, too, that The Art of the Title covered Stranger Things!
Three profiles of three drastically different members of the food industry. The first, the New Yorker dives into what seems like a regular restaurant profile of Damon Baehrel’s eponymous restaurant, supposedly the most exclusive restaurant in the country. Nick Paumgarten visits, and has an incredible meal, all sourced from the property (including flour made from acorns!), but as he begins to dig deeper, things just don’t add up. Next up, Esquire looks at the “unrecognizable genius of Guy Fieri,” which is a sentence I never thought I’d type, but I’m actually weirdly warming to Fieri after this article.
Follow this with a palate cleanser of a new profile on Pete Wells—I’m always fascinated by profiles of restaurant critics, and this does not disappoint.
Fascinating new things coming out of the Egyptology field! A new tattooed mummy has been found with elaborate tattoos, including animals and eyes of Ra. The Met has restored what color would look like on one of their Hathor columns and it’s gorgeous:
Finally, I’m excited to announce that I’m going to be writing a blog series about the history of LA for the Los Angeles Kings in honor of their 50th anniversary! The first post went live yesterday, on the history of the Forum in Inglewood, and I will unabashedly link it here.
Etcetera: We have a cheese surplus, and in the words of Katniss Everdeen: I volunteer. Doug the Pug does Stranger Things. Look upon Pokémon bones, ye Mighty and despair! Design your own LaCroix! An Ode To Rami Malek, Southern Murderer And Seducer, At The Emmys.
