Fact: Swimming pool balconies are almost certainly an awful idea.

Monkeys can’t handle the social pressure!

Here are some lovely insect wall charts.

So, uh, we sent these mice into space for a crazy amount of time, and, uh, now we understand bone growth or something.

Speaking of, how did this elephant end up on mars?

Just in time for, uh, yesterday: dinosaur Easter eggs (for reals!)

The street-legal flying car is here!

Here are your bad-ass gifs for the week.

The department of forgotten mascots.

Damn you HD 10180! Stealing our solar systems planetary thunder.

Today in lets-watch-this-be-constucted: the Rio Jesus!

Sexual kidney is the expression I’ll be thinking of this weekend.

Let’s look inside famous author’s bedrooms.

Did people evolve from dolphins? No, not they absolutely did not.

We are just ticking off terrible ideas from sci-fi movies one by one, dna screening preschools.

Thank you so much Atlas Obscura, for pointing us to the sex worker habits of penguins.

Let’s look at some ugly, ugly buildings.

Wired on feathered tyrannosaurs and the possibilities of triggering volcanoes.

Here is all the astronaut/rocketship photography you could possibly hope for (today).

Maybe we should turn NYC’s big box stores into a giant mountain. (Yeah! Maybe!)

This fireplace is very old.

We are getting closer and closer to understanding dark energy.

33 year olds are the happiest.

Here is a handy guide to cities imaginary monsters.

Let’s take a moment to talk about ARCTIC MADNESS.

Look, I know I’m not supposed to link to pop culture things, but I think it’s pretty cool that Neil deGrasse Tyson fixed the stars in Titanic for the re-release.

As long as I’m taking a mulligan on this one, here is a dog being fitted for a tracksuit.

Wired’s science blog has been killing it lately, here are some images from the National Library of Medicine.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, 19th century naturalist whale illustrations.

I’m not going to lie to you, if today was April Fools Day every link would just be this gif.

Update: the brain is beautiful and amazing!

I have a lot of problems with Amazon, but I think it’s pretty cool they found NASA’s rockets.

The Canadians understand that the penny is dumb.

I can’t believe I missed the Iditarod you guys.

I don’t think you understand how crazy solar tornadoes are.

The rise and fall of the expressionist woodcut. Yes.

Here are 47 possible names for the 7 dwarfs.

I guess we’re all in a New York state of mind! I’m really sorry.

Lucy was not alone in the age of early hominids. (Ricky? Charlie Brown? Jude? Your choice.)

Update from last week: ants aren’t always gross!

Let’s make puppets (featuring The Imp of Mischief)!

Never forget the Crimean War.

Tomorrow’s mobile homes (of yesterday).

Good morning, I have bad news for you. There are no more dinosaurs in New York City.

This is an article about fish farts. Yep.

On the origins of cows.

Everest climbing gear, then and now.

Where are all the food-delivering robots?

It is important, in times of worry, to look back on debunked end of the world fears.

Ants are gross!

New Scientist has your human evolutiona puzzles round-up.

“Death and Burial of Sir Cock Robin.”

Please take me to the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines.

In the future you will have your own medicinal mouse. The future will be weird.

I think we can all agree that whats missing from modern music are badgers.

Here’s your SPACE DANGER story for the week.

Let’s all take a field trip to the dinosaur graveyard of East Berlin.

And now all the architecture photography porn that fit to print.

Let us consider small moments of comfort as one prepares to freeze to death.

Here’s some 1960s mod bubblegum stickers for you.

In a similar vein: super cheerful early 20th century Bengalese design.

Maybe going back to living in caves is the best option.

Update: Mercury is crazy.

So, uh, here are a bunch of pictures from a Chinese gangster’s stolen cellphone.

On the musical preferences of animals (not you).

Vintage European circus posters are pretty great.

“40,000 years of human-dominated history is about to end.”

Long story short, aspirin is the best.

Sometimes you just need to see flying babies.

No, you shouldn’t have to give your potential employer your Facebook password.

“List of unexplained sounds” is your wikipedia page for the week.

Here are all of Io’s volcanoes.

And now the world’s fastest robot.

Today seems like a good day to talk about bee brains.

All you Occupiers out there, try and be as classy as The Pyramid of Capitalism.

Over yonder, Keith Haring’s journal is being unveiled day by day.

The Boston Molasses Flood was sort of a crazy thing.

Dept of we-are-just-biological-creatures: your voting preferences have a lot to do with candidates voices.

Soon air war will be as simple as a thumbs up, yay. . .

Let’s all take a look inside Hitler’s LA bunker.

This is sort of fascinating, iPads (and other screens) under the microscope.

Maybe you’d like to buy a haunted house in Hong Kong? The internet has you covered.

Behold, the un-printer!

Welcome to the world, NYC frog.

Behold! The entire infrared universe!

Book readers of the future (of the 30s).

On the magnetism of starling flocks.

Using slime molds to chart the efficiency of highway systems. yep.

Here’s your bad ass fossil for the week.

Frankly Belgium has had enough of you kids free-loading at storytime.

The world of early man grows more diverse every year.

Let’s talk about crocodile jaws and snouts.

Fare thee well, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Perhaps you’d like to buy a town.

Let us now discuss nomad planets.

Russian stone age cartoons.

It’s exciting to keep up with the highline project.

This week in um…: you see homeless people I see 4g wireless opportunity.

Zhang Kechun’s pictures of the Yellow River are pretty dang incredible.

Within five years there will be no more whimsical art installation ideas left: the clockwork forest.

The streetwalkers of Storyville, 1912.

The world can be cold and brutal, here are some emu chicks.

Cavemen may have been way more literate than previously thought.

SPACE TRAIN YOU GUYS.

Also here are some ghost cars.

Sometimes you just want to make music with fruits.

Floods make spiders do some neat things.

I’m going to be away from the internet for a couple days, I’ll miss you all dearly.

Let’s all celebrate 10 years of awesome Envisat images!

19th century gloves as the original smart-phone.

Hurray for Polish album covers!

The flying car is almost here, for realsies!

Today is a good day to catch up on Triceratops/Torosaurus controversy (this is always true).

It’s science! People are too dumb for democracy.

The world is running out of whimsical ideas. Guerrilla street furniture.

The future is self-cleaning.

Here’s your Soviet monument/ruin porn for the week.

Why yes, I would like to eat from your volcano kitchen.

The 1940s were a dangerous time for bicycling.

They were, however, a great time for zoo maps.

So, uh, diamond weevils huh?

Today in dolphins-are-hella-smart: they greet each other by name!

A look into David Foster Wallace’s word lists.

Take your pick: 50′s insurance company ephemera, or 60′s anti-drug illustration.

Um, hello, ghost dragon hunter.

Fact: Samuel Beckett gave Andre the Giant rides to school.

Neanderthals were much better sailors than one would guess.

Clearly birds are the greatest copyright violators of them all.

Here’s that 1970s Japanese children’s space book you requested.

All the antique machinery engravings one could hope for.

There are reasons it is a bad idea to fly over Antarctica.

Penguins used to be taller. Yep.

There was supposed to be a theme today, but then this robot controlling monkey ruined everything.

Welcome to Google Seaview.

Let’s all watch a lionfish hunt.

This is probably really important: dolphins are people too.

Your frivilous fancy for the day: Aquatic Frolics, 1926.

Explore the inhabitable universe, right here on earth!

Don’t be such a jerk, elephant.

How about some classic Southern California swimming pool photography.

Tiny tiny ancient horses.

Hurray for brain maps!

You might think that flying squids are cool, but really they are just lazy jerks.

Even more (significantly less) old science books.

Today is perhaps a good day to think about Iran in the swingin’ 60s.

Way to exist, worlds deepest living invertebrate.

1970s children imagine the future.