Hwat?! Weekly

These mushrooms are smurfed. Spurious Correlations! Advice! Drunkoons! Yo Ho a Cybertruck! IMAP Update! Afrikaans Tongue Twister Reveal! Poetry Corner! Veronika!

Smurf Inducing Fungus:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

Spurious Connections:
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Drunk Raccoon:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8jnxxm70jo.amp

Poetry Corner:
https://poets.org/poem/tincture

Veronika the Cow:
https://youtu.be/3rX1dx8HpL0?si=jclaEzZ34iEWS8Z9

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STORMWATCH! Balloons? Pomelo season is upon us! IMAP! Adventures in ADHD! Ogres! Dire Wolves! Happy horse accidents!
Dire wolf skull wall:
https://imgs.search.brave.com/axkZJkz81-1mYEovchjUAc6tCEJk7jhqfI73hxDhUmg/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxv/YWQud2lraW1lZGlh/Lm9yZy93aWtpcGVk/aWEvY29tbW9ucy8w/LzBiL0RpcmVfV29s/Zl9Ta3VsbHNfTGFf/QnJlYV8yMDA1LTA4/LTAxLkpQRw
The Cry Cry Horse:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-01-12/From-a-stitching-mistake-to-viral-hit-Meet-the-Cry-Cry-Horse--1JRZlzzI1t6/p.html
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NYPL Year in Review!
https://lithub.com/these-are-the-books-new-yorkers-checked-out-of-the-library-the-most-this-year/

Public domain preview!
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Great news from Brazil:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.19.24301010v1

Octotongue:
https://www.threads.com/@oceangeneration/post/DRWeQo4AvBM/another-day-another-fun-ocean-fact-octopuses-use-their-tongue-like-a-little

MRSA Killing:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815

One Night In Bangkok:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

One Night in Bangkok but make it medieval:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9U

The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lamond:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOa0O1-2w5E

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Formula 1 Part 3! Fire sooner? 3D Windpipe! Penguin legs? There is no Dana, only Zuul. ADHD-Off! The truth about Puffins. Broke bridge?

The Williams F1 Babypod:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40481095.amp

Early Fire:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists

Thomas Danbo Vid:
https://youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y?si=OPZBflWUAIo6Qt6e

Penguin leg example:
https://blog.nwf.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2011/03/penguin-that-leaps1.jpg

Floating Penguin Example:
https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/008/108/556/large_2x/humboldt-penguin-floating-on-its-back-free-photo.jpg

Zuul:
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaur-ghostbusters-zuul-20170509-htmlstory.html

Godzilla's Best Friend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguirus

3D Windpipe:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/breakthrough-3d-printed-organ-windpipe

Spring Puffin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_puffin#/media/File:Puffin_%28Fratercula_arctica%29.jpg

Rest-of-the-year Puffin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_puffin#/media/File:Horned_Puffin_RWD1.jpg

Puffin Shedding Beak:
https://www.pbase.com/lightrae/image/118177251

Hammersmith Bridge:
https://nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmith-bridge
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Formula 1 saves lives! Plague Volcano! Tooth? In my eye? The Story of Felicia. Laser Loon! Balloon Duel! Pencil loss! Lodge Dogs! Chessmen! Let's help our South African correspondent!

The Amazing Lewis Chessmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen#

Do not click this if you don't want to see the tooth in eye surgery: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tooth-in-eye-surgery-canada-1.7470626

Laser Loon: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/02/13/laser-loon-lives-on-through-new-st-paul-library-cards

Balloon Duel: https://www.geriwalton.com/a-french-balloon-due/

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