Libraries, cooking, music and birds!

• I remember talking to Colin Furze more than ten years ago, and he was enthusiastic about his idea for a pizza-oven-motorbike. Well, he's finally made it! And it's a brilliant, wholesome, charming, single-video build.
   
• I've kept hearing J. Kenji López-Alt's name on other cooking channels, and it never occurred to me to look up his own work. It turns out that it's a really good idea to film cooking videos as a POV with a head-mounted GoPro.
   

This week I also discovered some good musical stuff on TikTok, outside the normal YouTube bubble, So I'm going to step outside some of my readers' comfort zomes and — shockingly — link directly to TikTok. Consider yourself warned:

• We start with musical instruments. A jaw harp! I've never heard of this before, let alone seen it played, and it's fascinating.
   
• Asalato, or kashaka, or any one of a number of other names is a simple percussion instrument that, in skilled hands, can produce incredible rhythms.
   

• You may have seen the articles about the arrest of a man who was trying to walk across the Atlantic in a giant hamster wheel. There's a great post over on legal blog "Lowering the Bar" that asks: wait, why was he arrested? What for? And why could that happen in international waters?
   
• A portrait of Tenochtitlan: incredibly realistic renders of what the capital of the Aztec Empire would have looked like at its height — including some shots where you can slide back and forth to compare with modern day Mexico City. Even if you're not into history or archaeology, this is worth looking through.
   
• I probably shouldn't have been quite so surprised by a world map where land size is equal to population, but I was. Russia looks tiny.

And finally, some excellent photos of birds.

All the best,

— Tom