Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Cows milking themselves, China's influence on English, Pulitzer prize-winner Tyler Hicks and more in our look at the web this week

1. Truth Facts First World problems become permissibly hilarious when shown in satirical charts and graphs. “Truth Facts” are the brainchild of Danish duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, the writers and artists behind the comic strip “Wumo.” Skim through the bunch and see just how many times you catch yourself nodding at clever diagrams like, “The Biggest Lies on the Internet,” or “The Most …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Lego Simpsons, Earth's new twin planet, a 13-year-old eagle huntress and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Vein$ Fingerprints aren’t the most secure passwordas any decent crime film shows, you leave them everywhere. Vein geometry, however, has been shown to be just as unique as fingerprintseven differing in twinsand could be a safer alternative. Palm-vein scanners have already been produced, and even integrated in laptops; the future has already arrived at Sweden’s Lund University, where a student has developed a vein …

Link About It: L’ArcoBaleno

Earthquake-proof tables, Brazilian modern, Brooklyn's Souda studio and more in the stories culled from the online market's cast of talent

Helmed by Design Miami co-founder Ambra Medda, L’ArcoBaleno is an extraordinary online marketplace for the cultured design enthusiast. To provide further insight on the often laboriously handcrafted objects they purvey, the well-informed team has created a rich source of editorial content, which includes interviews and studio visits with their international roster of designers, travel stories tracing design wares back to their origins, intriguing history lessons …