Linkage

Thomas Sopwith’s wooden models of the earth's geological strata

LSU president F.King Alexander fires tenured professor for saying "F.King" too many times in front of the students

College administration backs faculty against student demands for trigger warnings on a course about graphic novels

A graphical explanation of how involute gears work and why they turn so smoothly

Cellular automaton scarf kickstarter now with only one week left

Dutch universities boycott Elsevier and Elsevier's support of Syria and Iran (G+)

Freedom of panorama in Europe safe again for now (G+)

Academic nursery rhymes

Why and how you should turn off auto-running plugins now (G+)

Mark A Reynolds – Intersecting the Void by Intervals (constructivist art involving overlaid tilted grids and curves)

What we lost when we shifted from personal web sites and blogs to mass content aggregation systems (and why I continue to maintain collections of links such as this one somewhere a little more permanent and searchable than my G+ account)

Grete Hermann's early work in the formulation of concrete complexity bounds for algorithms (David Roberts)