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Today in very obvious headlines: dinosaurs might not be extinct had asteroid struck elsewhere. China is totally going to beat us to aliens. Let’s all take a trip inside Bogota’s stratified social system. Maybe Uber can actually bring us all…

Roadkill in the age of the autonomous car. What happens when we start thinking like algorithms? Hey, look at this remarkable new supernova discovery! Sometimes you find a dead grasshopper embedded in a famous work of art I guess! Garage…

What is life but a Potemkin village? New things to be terrified of every day: the zombie viruses of climate change. Sup with this giant void in the Great Pyramid? Let’s all go to this Norwegian underwater restaurant. You know…

Why do all Chinatowns look alike (and not terribly like China)? And you may ask yourself: what is daylight-saving time anyway? Life inside the RVs of Silicon Valley (everything is very bad). Please come back, Europe’s ghostliest train station. Here…

Let’s all enjoy some freshly declassified aboveground atomic bomb test photos to prepare for the end of the world. Here are your Japanese subway entrances and footbridges for the day. The wrecking ball swings at Moscow. What is life but…

Jelani Cobb on the wrongness of Kelly’s bizarre Civil War mythology. Let’s talk about the coded language of London’s queer community. Actually let’s just talk about the evolution of language in general. What is life but a creature of kleptopredation?…

On the street chairs of Beirut. Maybe we can learn something from the Las Vegas shooter’s brain? The art of the fang. Look I’m not saying this is Atlantis but this is DEFINITELY Atlantis. Russian avant-garde film posters are the best…

Happy Halloween! Let’s enjoy some surrealist german costumes from the 1920s. Portuguese hydroelectric power stations (are a thing we all might enjoy). Hong Kong Flora. Look at this giant weird looking robot! I love strange and terrible sounding old food…

What happens when local news is no more. Cruising Google streetview for brutalist architecture. Elon Musk wants you to look at his tunnel I guess! What is life but a fantasy coffin? Pre-war Odeon cinemas are very great! Thanks!

It’s time to get spooky with forgotten traditions of Halloweens past. Mapping Brooklyn’s Edison bulbs: the illumination of gentrification. Visit exciting mundane Aberdeen. Today in cultural tourism: the flower men of Calcutta. Let’s all explore the wide world of radio.

It’s time to talk about America’s contempt for the black soldier (good morning). Expired library books are nice though. Bringing fireflies back to urban Taipei. Here are you Japanese milk storage boxes for the day. What’s up with Pensylvania’s potato…

Asking the important questions: why is this deer licking this fox? Life in the world’s coldest town. Life in the world’s northern most city. It is time to go to become Swiss plumbers I guess! Hey look at this very…