The astronaut Reid Wiseman recently posted an iPhone video of the Earth appearing to sink beneath the lunar horizon. The most recent photos on my iPhone are of my health insurance card and a pot of kidney beans simmering on the stove. We’re both leading extraordinary lives, in our own ways! Some ideas for making yours a little less ordinary below.

On this week’s list:

1. At home with eagles

2. David Byrne knows irresistible

3. Monday dinner

4. The rise of the scapebear

5. Bootleg bounty

6. Mapping happiness

1.

At home with eagles

I’m a sucker for any live animal camera: labrador puppies at doggy day care, nanny goats wandering a Connecticut barnyard, Masai giraffes at the Toronto Zoo. I’ve watched them all. Pick an animal, search that animal + “live cam” and you’re likely to find something fascinating. (Capybaras! Meerkats! No shoebill stork, alas; well, not currently at least.) It’s one of the internet’s most enduring gifts to insomniacs.

I had never, however, seen a live cam of wild bald eagles until Mary Ann Lickteig, a reader from Vermont, told me about Windsor and Dewey. They’re a pair of birds nesting in a white pine near a gorge in the middle of the state.