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New York City cops in the 1970s. “How Much More Do Books Cost Today?” Old dude dancing to contemporary music.

Hooray for bio-luminescence! (part 2) Atlas Obscura has some hand info on the deaths of the last week. Here is your Christmas spirit for the day. Oh my gosh you guys, it’s time for Big Picture’s photo wrap-up! “I would…

Hooray for bio-luminescence! Way to go Dalton Trumbo. Hey look, the awesome Paleofuture now in tumblr form! Catalan edible jewelry. Important: fish hatcheries are speeding up fish evolution.

AHHH! COMET HARPOON! AHHHHHH! GREENLAND SHARK! Fact: loud music makes drinking better. Disneyland clean-up operations are pretty dang fascinating. (via Atlas Obscura.) Our sense of smell is way better than a Neanderthal’s.

This is what the world has come to: urban emoticons. Fish used to walk all over the place. Dornith Doherty takes pictures of seed life. Way to go Dornith. The Symbolism Survey. “When Animals Run Attack Ads.”

Here’s your infographic of the week: every death on every British road from 1999-2010. Oh hey, welcome home bumblebee. The plus side of global warming is that soon we can clone a wooly mammoth. Update: but probably not really. Oh…

Did someone say jetpack murder? Captain Kangaroo and the Panda (yep). Here’s some really scholarly creepiness: late medieval cadaver tombs. I know this is late, but man this color footage of the 1939 Thanksgiving Day Parade is something else. Maybe…

Update: the world is very small. Man, there were some pretty awful ideas for what the White House should look like. Oh hello, spider shrimp. Ugly Renaissance Babies is your tumblr of the day. A visual history of Manhattan’s grid.

We all need some Jewish kids books, now and then. Here are a bunch of pictures of deadly snakes. yes. It’s a real dinosaur-eat-bird world out there. Pedestrian walkway roller coaster. You build the shit out of those boats, 1970s…

Here’s your map porn for the day. At least it was until I saw these MOON MAPS. Behold the new seven wonders of the world! Who wants to take a road trip to St Louis with me to visit the…

So why do lions and tigers have such ferocious roars? Our friends in the north have new money. Step by step instructions on how to meet a whole lot of racoons at once.

It’s time to say goodbye to the Western Black Rhino. Swing based guerilla art remains my favorite kind of guerilla art. Birds are so mad at us right now. Maybe you need a pointillism printer. And here’s your library design porn…