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A graphic designer looks back at his old homemade cassettes. This is very important: the dinosaur world was constantly on fire. 50 Watts is here to fill the Estonian children’s illustration shaped hole in your heart. Here are some pictures…

Fact: Swimming pool balconies are almost certainly an awful idea. Monkeys can’t handle the social pressure! Here are some lovely insect wall charts. So, uh, we sent these mice into space for a crazy amount of time, and, uh, now…

Just in time for, uh, yesterday: dinosaur Easter eggs (for reals!) The street-legal flying car is here! Here are your bad-ass gifs for the week. The department of forgotten mascots. Damn you HD 10180! Stealing our solar systems planetary thunder.

Today in lets-watch-this-be-constucted: the Rio Jesus! Sexual kidney is the expression I’ll be thinking of this weekend. Let’s look inside famous author’s bedrooms. Did people evolve from dolphins? No, not they absolutely did not. We are just ticking off terrible…

Thank you so much Atlas Obscura, for pointing us to the sex worker habits of penguins. Let’s look at some ugly, ugly buildings. Wired on feathered tyrannosaurs and the possibilities of triggering volcanoes. Here is all the astronaut/rocketship photography you…

Maybe we should turn NYC’s big box stores into a giant mountain. (Yeah! Maybe!) This fireplace is very old. We are getting closer and closer to understanding dark energy. 33 year olds are the happiest. Here is a handy guide…

Let’s take a moment to talk about ARCTIC MADNESS. Look, I know I’m not supposed to link to pop culture things, but I think it’s pretty cool that Neil deGrasse Tyson fixed the stars in Titanic for the re-release. As…

I’m not going to lie to you, if today was April Fools Day every link would just be this gif. Update: the brain is beautiful and amazing! I have a lot of problems with Amazon, but I think it’s pretty…

I don’t think you understand how crazy solar tornadoes are. The rise and fall of the expressionist woodcut. Yes. Here are 47 possible names for the 7 dwarfs. I guess we’re all in a New York state of mind! I’m…

Lucy was not alone in the age of early hominids. (Ricky? Charlie Brown? Jude? Your choice.) Update from last week: ants aren’t always gross! Let’s make puppets (featuring The Imp of Mischief)! Never forget the Crimean War. Tomorrow’s mobile homes…

Good morning, I have bad news for you. There are no more dinosaurs in New York City. This is an article about fish farts. Yep. On the origins of cows. Everest climbing gear, then and now. Where are all the…

It is important, in times of worry, to look back on debunked end of the world fears. Ants are gross! New Scientist has your human evolutiona puzzles round-up. “Death and Burial of Sir Cock Robin.” Please take me to the…