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It’s Monday so let’s just enjoy some Japanese grain elevators and VHS box art. Hey look at this dang ice age cavern discovered under Montreal! This surgeon wants to connect your brain to the internet so I guess it’s time…

Another day another over 200 pterosaur eggs found. Remembering the time four lesbian activists invaded the BBC. Let’s all take a trip back to 1940s Sao Paulo. Let’s all take a trip to space mining academy. Time to spend the…

The rats of Manhattan are truly incredible (and genetically distinct from uptown to downtown). Here are your Soviet watches for the day. Let’s all take a dive through a Mexican sinkhole. Behold the world’s deepest living fish. Whoops! American Airlines…

Jelani Cobb on the justice department’s history of racist paranoia. On the surface, Ulaanbaatar, San Francisco, Calais and Jerusalem could not be more different – but for the people squeezed out by political upheaval or prohibitive rents, the urban 21st…

Get ready to say goodbye to bananas (the future is very bad). The best street scenes are Baltimore street scenes. Mapping the blurred lines of Beirut’s language. Sao Paulo’s homeless are seizing the city. And now some Tarkovsky polaroids to…

Another week another possibly habitable planet. Maybe income inequality has ALWAYS been rising? Guess we have to talk about the normalization of Nazis again. On Lebanon’s forgotten space program. Let’s all explore this abandoned Japanese theme park.

We’ll be taking the week off for the holiday. We’ll be back on Monday; be good to each other. We’ll miss you dearly.

Was the passenger pigeon doomed by it’s too large gene pool? On the other side of this: the Indiana Amish’s genetic fountain of youth. Here’s your Middle Eastern Modernist architecture Tumblr for the day. New Zealand is (maybe) going to…

You know who ELSE loved decaf? The Nazis! Welcome to the age of the AI coworker. Here are your Japanese and Taiwanese urban typeface hunters for the day. The more educated Republicans are the less they believe in climate change, so…

Here are your comedy wildlife photography finalists for the year. Blessed be. Can carbon-dioxide removal save us all? Is it even a real thing? Two stars slammed into each other and solved half of astronomy’s problems. What comes next? While…

What is life but an isolated Arctic meteorologist? Are people REALLY better than robots in the first place? Here’s your daily supply of retrofuturism. Here’s your daily supply of disused school houses of Ireland. Why don’t elephants get cancer?

Guess it’s time for us all to take a holiday in a Soviet sanatorium. Or maybe we should take a trip along the mother road. More on the future of roadkill. Welcome to the future where we can grow you…