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Chinese copycat architecture is my favorite thing today. Let’s explore 113 years of New York state driver’s licenses. Yes, Facebook know’s what you are doing whether or not you’re a member. Meanwhile, why explore the world when you can let Google…

Maybe it is time to start thinking about our de-extinction wish lists. 1988’s LA of the future (today). Where were you this weekend, whiskey tornado? Triple quasar dawg. And now a 1950s illustrated manners report card.

We are living in an age of holographic cooking simulators and envelope x-ray spray. The ice of Lake Michigan provide you with some gifs to make it through the weekend. It turns out that Sherlock Holmes’s copyrights are all sorts…

Here is a baby dik-dik. You’re welcome, the internet. Photographing the impressions left by clothing and jewlery, is a thing you could do. (nsfw) So, what porn is the world looking for (this one is pretty safe actually). On the…

No, we didn’t find 100 percent proof of extraterrestrial life, but we did figure out that life COULD have existed on Mars! Obviously the answer is floating cities. Soviet anti-alcohol posters? If you insist. Speaking of the Soviets, 3 killer…

“Please help, I am surrounded by herring and I’m terrified of fire.” Don’t worry, just use the DNA in their sperm! Talking Points Memo brings you the best obituary of the week. Photographing female porn stars with and without makeup.…

In case you want to start your week reading fascinating and upsetting historical documents, over 10,000 Haitian runaway slave notices have digitized. There is something mysterious living in Antarctica’s Lake Vostok (cue horror movie music). Hella impressive telescopes coming soon…

Welcome to the known world, new South African cryptic spider. Pendulum Choir is your art installation for the week. Space paradoxes are my favorite kind of paradoxes. You know what this power station really needs? A roller coaster. Matt Kahn…

Giant salamanders are the best suckers of all. Your elevator is segregating you. Look, I know this is venturing way too far into pop-culture, but this article about what happened to the show Up All Night is a totally fascinating…

Studying the self-portraits of famous authors (is a thing you could do I guess). Perhaps you’d like to see some infrared images of emperor penguins. 1970s Soviet Futurism yes please thank you. Maybe we’ll find life on distant moons. 19th…

And now matching unique editions of Fahrenheit 451 designed alternatively  to burn and to never do that. Today’s scariest thing: anaesthesia wearing off mid-surgery! In honor of all this dead horse-based turmoil, Atlas Obscura looks at the enshrined skull of…

Here’s what we will wear in space. The Onion is not above its own satirizing, which is why it is the best. Shall we now discuss the possible origins of language? You guys, Mexico City is just doing cool bars…