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Hey look, it’s my birthday! Maybe you feel like donating to my band’s new kickstarter campaign? I’m sorry, I won’t mention it again.
Deserted shopping malls are the ancient ruins of the future.
Delightful surrealist Japanese sci-fi art (you are the reason I wake up in the morning 50 Watts).
Tons and tons of NASA sketches and space art.
Here are some weird-ass flying animals.
I can’t believe it took me so long to check for Big Picture’s eclipse photos.
This has been a weird week for things on auction. exhibit b: Reagan’s blood.
Holy wine Jesus popsicles (sacrilicious).
The obvious solution to weeds is a laser.
Robot fish will save the world.
Happy Monday, let’s talk about ichthyosaurus’s breathing troubles.
Midcentury Modern luggage labels!
Flavorwire has your week’s worth of ruin porn with these abandoned rail stations from around the world.
Way to be bad-ass, 73 year old Tamae Watanabe.
Fact: some orangutans delay puberty (to be more attractive).
I, for one, am entirely excited about New Mexico’s new science ghost city.
It looks like the Soviets had us beat there back when that was still a thing.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are crushing us when it comes to teleportation.
Plutonium’s signature has been captured at last (which is good).
Here are some pictures of people being blown (by a wind machine). Have a good weekend.
This week in this-really-happened: John Waters picked up hitchhiking by Here We Go Magic.
Let’s power the world with viruses!
Telepathic robot arms are no longer just for monkeys.
Globe houses of futures past.
I’m glad to know other people have spent inordinate amounts of time thinking about how to end letters and emails.
It begins. Scientists just made a pretty incredible anti-aging break-through.
Portfolio Magazine used to be a pretty cool thing.
Your kid’s crappy haircut may be giving them lazy eyes.
Approaching a platonic ideal subway system.
Who wants to get drunk at the bottom of the sea with me?
Did you know the Easter Island heads have bodies too?
Here’s what you need to know about the current triceratops controversy.
Update: bioluminescense is still great.
It is high time we resurrect some of Darwin’s creepy ass experiments.
I hope everyone had a good weekend, now let’s visualize Deep Time.
Want to know about LBJ and RFK’s mutual hatred but don’t want to read an entire 700 page book? This thorough review will do the trick!
The 20th Century in Crayola crayons.
Meet the sarcastic fringehead.
The future is solar powered eye implants.
Mother’s Day is Sunday, but Norway won’t need a reminder.
TECHNOLOGY! Anything can be a touch screen now.
On the incredible amounts of “upcycling” copies of National Geographic go through.
“Futuro, the idea home that wasn’t.”
No, the Mayans didn’t actually think the world was going to end this year.
One last memorial: Art Spiegelman on Sendak.
Tomorrow in Libertarian u/dystopias: obscenely rich tech giants building their own floating, government-free, start-up island.
Meanwhile, Dubai has the rest of the world beat in insane building ideas.
I want to live in a tiny typeset town.
Mother’s Day is coming up, maybe you should buy a flying hovercraft.
Here are some delightfully morbid 19th century biology book illustrations.
This Jewel Caterpillar is pretty neat.
Document roadkill, for science!
This week in crazy-ass things: Zombie-Ant Fungus has it’s own Killer Fungus.
This is what the super moon looked like from outer space (spoiler: it’s not as impressive).
THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT DINOSAUR FARTS YOU GUYS.
Austrian ice caves as Martian test labs.
There are better ways to make a living than stealing bridges.
Yes, I would like to see some 1920s Japanese illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen tales.
Why are you trying to wake up sleeping chicken babies all the time scientists?
Stopping an asteroid with a whole lot of pebbles.
End-times in mind: what will the solar system be like when the sun dies.
Designing the Festival of Britain, 1951.
Newsflash: dinosaur era fleas were very big.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in dinosaur news, there was a press release about alien dinosaurs the other day.
Margaret De Patta’s jewelry (is great).
Science and Industry Trademarks of the 40s and 50s (are too).
Let’s talk about “electronic space war video game epilepsy“.
Which reminds me, this picture of eyes and nebulas is my favorite thing today. (via @Spacefuture.)
Last week two of my favorite websites in the whole dang internet joined forces to feature rad bookplates.
Maybe the key to helping premature babies lies in the kangaroo.
Everyone loves Rube Goldberg-esque postcard writing machines.
There is rarely a need to smash things.
Just in time for yesterday, Diego Rivera’s Moscow May Day.
It’s a whole dang world out there. Chinese fast food.
People were still being affected by natural selection through at least the 19th century.
WWI posters (iconic).
Life on your own private island.
Not so fast you guys, asteroid mining might be illegal.
The future is dog poop for wi-fi.
Norway has just found a whole new kind of life. Way to go Norway.
Here are some Russians building a shark net.
Happy Monday, let’s all plan a trip to a Japanese cat cafe.
Why are we waterproof?
Ruined Polaroids are a cool thing.
Fact: the Danish are a million times better at playground building.
And now an infographic to ease us into the week: how to write a Booker prize winning novel.
Very important update: there are a lot of stars.
Hey, how did Technicolor work?
If you are bad at math than you probably believe in things (or something, I guess, whatever).
Let’s take a look inside the Eames household.
Start your weekend early with delightful Japanese children’s illustration.
Dear people, please stop eating bats.
Eeee! Floating jellyfish robot!
On the bureaucratic nightmare of Russian laundry.
And now here are some stereoscopic Civil War pictures.
Leave Saturn’s weirdest ring alone, mysterious objects.
Hurray for spillways!
If I’m reading this correctly, the point is that whale’s ears are gross.
1980′s disco-blasting robot waiters (heart).
Here’s some mid-century astronaut photography porn for you.
Fitzgerald’s turkey recipes.
It’s Tuesday, here are some harvest mice.
Monitoring crazy urban sprawl from space!
The new hip thing is asteroid mining.
Vintage headphone ads (I think we could all use a pair of hear muffs).
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the worst water slide of all time.
Let’s talk about drilling lasers in outer space.
Today in almost timely political street art: Pinocchio Sarkozy.
These 17th century fish sketches are my favorite thing today.
Viewing the world from inside a trash can.
Meanwhile, the 18th century instagram.
This week in bad-ass: jetpacking over the Swiss Alps.
Context-free patent art is the best thing today.
How do you single out friends’ voices in a crowded party? Science is how.
Masters on 45s is sort of neat.
Do you love bad puns? You might have a brain disease!
On the regional dialects of certain hyraxes.
Everyone needs some undersea photography now and then.
“In 1950, an elephant fell out of a monorail in Germany.”
Let’s all make some musical jelly.
Edison, Ford, Firestone, and Harding go camping (I bet there was so much casual antisemitism).
What does space sound like?
Life goal of the day: visit Deception Island.
Computer as swarm of crabs.
“Astrologers Predict 1929 Will Be Year of Prosperity.”
Here are all the vintage circus posters fit to print (for now).
Today in the-answer-to-your-problems-are-slides: they help you get to class on time!
Here are some 19th century visual puns (classy).
Evidently the time has come for cyborg plants.
Incidentally, maybe the key to saving the forests are robots.
Angler fish hurray! (you’re the best American Museum of Natural History.)
I’ll be out of town for a couple days, I will however return to you with open arms.
Sometimes you have to give the people what they want: 1870s proto-lol cats.
Behind the very first cartoon (neat!)
News item: I love space tourism.
“Be a sadist” Kurt Vonnegut’s writing advice.
Now let’s all study bat flight!
A graphic designer looks back at his old homemade cassettes.
This is very important: the dinosaur world was constantly on fire.
50 Watts is here to fill the Estonian children’s illustration shaped hole in your heart.
Here are some pictures of ex-slaves taken in the 1930s.
You have probably been hit by all sorts of dark matter this morning.
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