It’s Friday. Here is a shark eating a shark.

True story: your pancreas has taste buds. yep.

Noisolation headphones are a thing.

Everyone loves map art.

It’s still Friday. Here is information on burping asteroids.

The Enchanted Forest and North Brother Island will provide your ruin porn for the week.

If I’m reading this correctly, tarsiers are super sonic spies.

Vulture restaurant is this weeks space tugboat.

The Magic Underground Castle (is delightful).

I don’t care what you say, I want to watch Disneyland get constructed.

Mind-blowing fact of the day: most fish evolved on land.

Industrial design of the future (1944).

An entirely lizard based Noah’s ark is kind of terrifying.

Do not steal Chile’s glaciers dudes. Don’t do it!

Let us now listen to the sound of the Jurassic bush-cricket.

There is some crazy psychedelic stuff going on in the ocean.

Thank you PopSci for this slideshow of mythical beast hunts.

Fact: New Mexico almost required psychiatrists to dress as wizards.

Meanwhile, the robot car is just waiting for our non-robot laws to catch up with it.

I know it’s only Monday, but I’m pretty sure “tiny volcanic moon” is the phrase of the week.

(Largely terrifying) tales of DIY science.

You know what else are neat? Waterfall restaurants.

2011 had some pretty impressive science visualizations it turns out.

And now some 1950s elephant automatons, I think this is going to be a good week. (via Boing Boing.)

Welcome to your new home,  Planet GJ 667Cc (it’s been an exciting week in space).

Richard Branson’s lemurs and other assisted migrations.

This is what a mouse’s brain activity looks like.

Perhaps you’d like to see some rad train photography.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, like, for real, yo.

The orb-web spider will go to great lengths to avoid rough sex.

Flavorwire has a handy write-up of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Space tugboat is absolutely the phrase of the day.

The high cost of bad handwriting.

These are the sounds of mind reading.

Dept. of the-future-is-totally-here-dudes: bullet proof skin!

Wired wants to talk to you about (actual) bugs.

Uncontacted peoples in the 21st century is one of the most mind blowing concepts I can imagine.

Let’s all listen to Mercury!

Meanwhile, here are some things we’ve found about the atmosphere at the edge of the solar system.

Science has determined aliens are probably being reclusive dicks.

Oh hello, albino hummingbird.

It is well documented that world’s fairs are awesome.

Here is a look at one of the first sound installations. It is pretty neat too.

What are you doing at the bottom of the ocean Anklyosaur.

Let us welcome the week with reflections on crab design.

Here’s your weeks worth of solar storm sky porn.

What do false memories look like?

Bad news navigation fans: the north star might be shrinking.

But what about the OTHER Vitruvian man?

Welcome to the known universe 26 new planets (it’s been a big week for outer space).

The New York Public Library is first in the field of 3D gif making.

The new Kazakhstan subway is the classiest subway system I’ve ever seen.

Mice are much better singers than previously assumed.

I hope you all stay warm this weekend. Perhaps inside an ice hotel.

Mind blowing fact of the day: President John “the Tenth President” Tyler’s grandchildren are still alive!

You know what makes international diplomacy rules way more interesting? Outer space!

By the way, have you seen NASA’s new highest resolution ever picture of the Earth?

Behold the chemobile.

It it is time to find out what the rings of tree trunks sound like.

Update from yesterday: also dolphins are speaking whale. (via Boing Boing.)

On John Updike and other unlikely children’s authors.

Maybe you’d like to know some things about patricide. (via Atlas Obscura.)

Siphusauctum gregarium is literally the strangest thing in the world.

The women of the world are in pain.

Super important news: dolphins and whales are bffs now. (via Metafilter.)

1970s Olivetti ads (are neat).

It is time to play the subway.

Here are some illustrations of animals cooking food.

Maybe there is life on Venus (no, there probably is not).

By the year 2000 all women will be amazonian super women.

Mental Floss has the alternative presidential candidate information you desire.

The Russian mafia understands the art of the tombstone.

Huzzah! Vintage Swiss stamps.

The natural (microscopic) world can be pretty awesome too.

Science can now tell you if you’re going to live to be 100 AND let you watch comets crashing into the sun.

Meanwhile, on the terrible news front: the Supreme Court has decided that things don’t have to stay in the public domain.

Here’s all the great underwater photography you could hope for. (via io9.)

Let us now welcome the weekend with open arms as we watch the Golden Gate Bridge get constructed.

Yesterday’s SOPA protests made today’s column extra hard to do, it did however make for some excellent images and confused twitter posts.

Google maps are making the world of prehistoric beasts a better place.

OMG you guys! Carnivorous caterpillars!

Did you know that AT&T had the chance to own the internet?

Good news all: the Valley of the Kings isn’t just for royals anymore.

How about a little typography porn?

Public service billboards from times past.

Jelly fish jelly fish jelly fish!!!

Last but not least, here is some very important Mexican pulp illustration.

What does (the readership of the BBC think) the future holds!

In the meantime, it’s time to start drinking our pee probably.

I am in love with this history of the PBS logo.

“I was shitting you people” a message from Ayn Rand.

I stumbled on this completely by accident: every Library of congress picture with the keyword mustache.

We’re going to be keeping things low key today. Lest we forget the reason for the season, here’s MLK’s letter to Sammy Davis Jr on the importance of art and entertainment.

Very important dinosaur hands news.

Data visualizations as self portrait.

Behold the classroom-less school (way to go Sweden).

Can we all agree that Japanese monsters are the most terrifying?

Hello there lil world’s smallest vertebrae fella.

What the world really needs is video games for pigs.

If I’ve learned anything doing this column, it’s that Berlin has the best hotels.

“Don’t be HER pin-up boy.”

Similarly: Don’ts for women riders.

Tell me more about monkey faces please.

The Japanese understand the key to depression is baby robots (robot babies).

Peter Newell’s The Rocket Book is your early 20th Century kids book of the day.

By the way, it’s time to start thinking about historically preserving the moon.

The ocean floor is a pretty crazy place.

Perhaps you’ve wondered why JRR Tolkien never won a Nobel Prize (I have never wondered this).

The year in animals killing each other. I promise this is (possibly) the last year-in-review link.

Let’s take a moment to discuss the most kissed face in the world.

The CIA refuses to admit that Obama was transported to Mars.

The lost tunnels of downtown LA (yes, Dan, we know).

Perhaps you’d like to know what could have entered public domain this year.

These were the weirdest new animals of 2011.

2012, on the other hand, will be the year of single person helicopters.

Fake holidays are pretty wonderful.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate gender swapping fish.

Pigeons look at 19th Century Europe.

Every day is a good day to talk about ghost hunting.

Aqua Velvet brings you their top posts of 2011 (we still have a couple more weeks for year-end wrap-ups I figure).

Way to have the world’s tallest bridge, Mexico!

Meanwhile, also from the BBC, file sharing is a religious right (in Sweden).

And some whimsy to prepare you for the weekend: Daguerreotype dogs.

“What do you think most about during the day?” “Women. They are a complete mystery.” Stephen Hawking at 70.

Oh hello, wonderful space ephemera.

Philippe Ramette’s impossible photographs.

The future is (really ugly) self-repairing shoes.

Long story short, there isn’t really any reason to eat a prehistoric fish.

Here is your Norwegian witch memorial.

What are you doing here, moon mineral?

Urban design links for the week: disguised infrastructure and guerrilla whimsy.

You know what else I love? Windsor McCay! (via 50 Watts.)

We’ll never leave you again.

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate Chinese indie-bookstores.

Maybe it’s time for a more rational calendar.

The secret message in Lincoln’s pocketwatch (this is my favorite thing today).

Child-based art installations are pretty neat too.

2012 is th4 year that Orangutans become all about iPads.

Will return tomorrow. We’ve missed you terribly.