Scots, wha hae – Happy Burns Day! Here’s a bio of Robert Burns, Braveheart, Burns Supper instructions, and lots of haggis
Eleven strange habits of geniuses
How Wile E. Coyote explains the world
How a pile of unpaid bills led to the creation of the District of Columbia
Ten awesome feats of wartime engineering
ICYMI, Friday’s links are here, and include advice from c. 1200 on how to survive the winter, ten real life MacGyver moments that saved lives, online shopping in the 1950s, and Alton Brown’s critique of Amazon’s dumbest kitchen gadgets, with bonus Amazon reviews. Also, a roundup of snow-related links