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It begins. Scientists just made a pretty incredible anti-aging break-through. Portfolio Magazine used to be a pretty cool thing. Vesta! 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…

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…

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…

One last memorial: Art Spiegelman on Sendak. “We jump over camels.” 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…

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! Patents for unusual houses, 1930s-2000s. Huzzah.

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…

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…

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).…

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. Behold the world’s oldest…

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…

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. Braaaaaains. Here are some Russians building a shark net.