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1) The shipwreck of the 1495 medieval Danish warship Gribshunden turned out to have incredibly well-preserved plant remains, including expensive spices like saffron, peppercorns, ginger, and almond.

It's a “substantially complete royal medieval pantry” and is "[one of] the most fabulous discoveries of spices in any archaeological context, on land or sea"

View the paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281010

3) So in love with the art of France/Malta-based illustrator Karine Rougier

https://www.instagram.com/karine.rougier/

4) Researchers at Tohoku University attached electrodes to mushrooms to track their electrical signal transfers after rain

More interesting research on mycelial networks! Plus, it's lab confirmation of what mushroom hunters already know about how lightning affects fungi growth

Press release: http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/mushrooms_and_their_postrain_electrical_conversations.html

5) Having a great time wandering around @touloutoumou's Museum of Screens, a virtual museum about web games. What a lovely, strange pocket of the internet

It's open from 7am-10pm (every day except one day chosen at random each year)

http://touloutoumou.com/games/mos/

And that’s it for this week, friends! Hope y’all enjoyed these little web treasures. Have a great weekend