Sunday smörgåsbord

Sturgeon have returned to the lakes and rivers of Northern Minnesota, where the catch-and-release season has opened, with fishermen reporting catching specimens weighing over 100 pounds.  That's not as big as they used to be, but since they live >100 years, it will take some time to restore the population to its full magnificence.

"Boy Genius" has sold his blog for several million dollars.

There's a fascinating story in the Globe and Mail about studies of a family who involuntarily make "mirror movements" with contralateral parts of their bodies because the neural motor pathways for left and right are not fully separated, as they are in everyone else.

A four-year-old boy, blind since birth, has learned to navigate using echolocation; he accomplishes this using self-generated tongue clicks, not a sound-emitting device.

The Los Angeles Times has a list of America's 20 most-visited National Monuments (not National Parks).  I was surprised at how few of them I've seen.

An inventive young man in Hong Kong uses movable walls (like the ones that libraries use for space-saving of infrequently-requested material), to enhance his 340-square-foot apartment (video at the link).

Someone claims that he can predict your gender by analyzing your browsing history.  Based apparently on my visits to Google, Blogger, StarTribune, GuardianUK, and Reddit, it says I have a 67% chance of being male.  Via J-Walk.

Lena Horne's iconic rendition of Stormy Weather.

[More to come later today - still sorting out which links to put here and which to blog separately...]

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