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Dan Weiss is off today, but we’re channeling him.
Smoke. Stone. Super Nintendo. Skin under a band-aid… 50 Shades of Grey.
Animals with fraudulent diplomas.
Yesterday, a giant solar-powered airplane departed from Switzerland in its first transcontinental flight.
Here are some vintage photographs that capture the special bond between ventriloquist and dummy.
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.
Steinbeck’s love advice.
Mapping out Phineas Gage’s brain.
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.
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