Photos of the Second Avenue Subway construction are my favorite things today.

Manhattan’s payphone graveyard is pretty cool too.

Behold the Fiji cannibal fork.

It is time to put backpacks on dragonflies because science.

And now children’s textbook covers from 1920s Japan.

60 plus years of 1984 cover design.

Perhaps you are need of some inspiration today; this is a story about a female amputee scaling Everest.

Headline of the day: “Mind-reading monkey brains look similar to ours.”

Atlas Obscura looks at pop culture gargoyles of the world.

Dang weird clouds are getting more and more common.

Yes, we have discovered a new body part.

Behold the first known fluorescent vertebrate (that you totally were already familiar with).

Also you should probably check out this new hot-pink slug.

Cheetahs ain’t so fast (they are still very fast).

Here are some photographs of moths for you.

Jackson Pollack: unknowing cold war warrior.

Futurist domes march into the sea.

Today in things that are adorable: a four-year old reviews the country’s best new restaurant.

The (verified) oldest man in recorded history has passed.

More bad news, this time about coffee.

Here are some pictures of bubbles for you.

The answer is hallucinating robots.

And some important lego face news.

Alastair Philip Wiper’s photographs of industry are my favorite things today.

But these pictures of grandmothers of the world and their cuisine are pretty adorable too.

More on the ocean floor being totally gross.

Mirror-touch synaesthesia is your phenomenon of the day.

Let’s talk about Viennese fast food culture, because why not you know?

Teleportation is coming closer and closer to reality.

Coffee is good for you again I guess.

And now a brief history of terrible US Government design.

BBC asks the important question: why do Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes?

oh hello lost underwater Egyptian city.

The Milky Way’s spirals are pretty interesting!

The future is regenerative energy.

Now let’s talk about tiny Welsh towns with oh so many bookstores.

People sure do seem to love American dialect maps these days.

The bottom of the ocean is filthy!

I think we can all agree that we need more human anatomy/art pinball.

We are living in an age where we can watch spambots interact (politely).

Here come the other universes.

Here come the mind-controlled exoskeletons.

Here come the x-ray pictures of lightning.

Here comes Kim Jong-il’s sushi chef.

Here comes the 1920s whimsical science fiction of the day.

This is a story about a cat being caught smuggling a cellphone into a Russian prison.

NASA is going to 3d print the heck out of some tasty pizzas.

Life among the ultimate in 1970s futurism (today).

So I guess bull surfing is a thing!

In case you were wondering, abandoned theme parks are still my favorite.

Last week was a big one in the weird animal news world.

Pangaea with today’s political borders is pretty fascinating.

Old domains never die, they just get co-opted for illicit use.

One of my all time favorite blogs is no more, so let’s all take a moment to appreciate a Teacher’s Guide to Environmental Sculpture.

I feel like we’ve talked about this before, but obviously the time has come to clone a mammoth.

Continuing a theme from yesterday, here is some submarine ruin porn.

Sussex ghost hunters of the 1950s (hurray).

The strange sage of the stolen yeti hand.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the first time Everest was successfully scaled. Today we live in a world where there is a serious problem with traffic on it.

The simple pleasure of great art in ugly rooms.

Aquanauts are the new thing you guys.

This is a story about very old moss or whatever.

Now we can turn concrete into liquid metal (this is assuming we are scientists).

This week in whimsy: 3-d foam art and the descriptive camera.

Also this is a story about a dachshund and his lion best friend. It is for you.

Now is a good time to talk some more about the death of Richard III.

It’s my birthday and a holiday weekend, so we’re taking a couple days off. In the meanwhile here are some great tumblrs to fill your time. See you on Tuesday.

If you are dreaming a lot about animals, you might get Alzheimers (and other signs).

Maybe aliens are just energy conscious. Maybe a lot of things.

So it’s settled then: Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids (yet)(duh).

Why are barns painted red? Because of dying stars.

Very important news: yesterday the world’s biggest crocodile turned 110 (maybe).

On the other side of feelings about the world, welcome to the age of beard billboards.

Soviet board games of the 20s and 30s.

We, as a species, have built one large scale dam a day for the last 130 years (on average).

Here are some books with awful original titles.

I’m not going to pretend to understand this huge breakthrough in prime number mathematics.

Welcome to the week! good news: the world won’t be hit by a giant asteroid at the end of the month.

Happy 50th birthday chaos theory!

It is very sad that the world does not have this desert crossing vehicle in it.

Venezuela is out of toilet paper.

Behold the Alternative Limb Project.

If I’m reading this correctly, I could really use some electrical brain shocks.

And now you’re midcentury design for the day, available in school library poster or Buckminster Fuller book cover flavors.

Watch out for the solar flare you guys.

On plate tectonics and the origins of monkeys vs apes.

Children of the 1980s build the city of the future.

We all need some industrial disaster porn from time to time.

The time has come for vintage Swedish movie posters.

Perhaps there is a submerged continent off the coast of Brazil.

I imagine we’ve all wondered what New York City would look like on different planets.

A NASA scientist explains to a nun why we must explore space (in the 70s).

I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves “why is Mercury like an orange and not a peach?”

19th Century Japanese bird paintings (are neat).

This just in: gas masks are terrifying huh?

On standing in line in India.

Just in time for, uh, yesterday: did you know that the founder of Mother’s Day fought to have it abolished?

Split in half food is a good thing to photograph.

Abandoned Star Wars sets are too.

Headlines of the future today!

You will be missed western black rhino.

No, glass really isn’t a liquid.

Not to keep being a bummer, but the Toba super-volcano probably didn’t happen either.

Now let’s talk about the occult and the father of rocket science.

Some good news: Disney isn’t going to trademark Dia de los Muertos after all.

Wired worms its way farther into my heart via a list of recent awesome dinosaur discoveries.

Vintage science ads huzzah!

Peter Lipton photographs endangered and soon to be extinct Ecuadorian amphibians.

What’s it like sailing a top the Arctic?

What’s it like, swimming below the Arctic?

Our solar system is actually pretty weird.

Unwanted moles are basically the best archaeologists.

Now let’s all take a moment to appreciate how totally great Ray Harryhausen was.

Today in ruin porn, the world of abandoned borscht belt resorts.

Banner ads are basically the least effective thing ever.

Here is everything you need to know about the coming cicada swarm.

We are all using incredibly old words.