—Scientists rethink the collapse of Easter Island society. Spoiler: It wasn’t just environmentally rapacious islanders, but the rats they brought along. [via ptdr]
—Anil Dash gathers the best of Zidane Headbutt spin-offs, “dedicated to the head-first fight against alleged racism, the grand tradition of ridiculous memes on the net, and the premise that “Yakety Sax” is always funny.”

–Here is another entry to compliment the two earlier links in my ad-hoc Scalar Series: take a look at the atom and relative size of proton versus electron.

–The concept book for the Seattle Public Library, where the vision was introduced: “to redefine / reinvent the Library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store, where all media – new and old – are presented under a regime of new equalities.” I’m not sure about the actual content, but it certainly came out beautifully. [via ic]