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Can we just agree that being buried alive is the scariest possible thing? Occupy the Tundra! Maybe we live inside a black hole. Maybe a lot of things. Oh Jean…

As it turns out, the T-rex was more bad ass than we’d ever imagined. Good news everyone, now you can chart the Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s progress from the…

The Big Picture on Occupy Everywhere (I love you Big Picture). Department of things-to-buy-me-please: The Keaton Music Typewriter. Sentimental Cartography. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, slide…

Just in time for, uh, yesterday: maybe Columbus discovered Syphilis too! Have you always wished you could be shot out of a gun after you die? Good news! So here’s…

Behold the wi-fi dowsing rod (this is what it’s come to). Eeee! Dinosaur footprints! Atlas Obscura’s 31 days of Halloween project brings LA’s Sowden House. Perhaps it is time to…

It’s getting sort of list-y around here. It’s time for 2012’s endangered places, and the winners of this year’s Nikon Small World contest! Mother Jones on cephalopods and political cartoons.…

How did people call each other terrible before Hitler? Perhaps you’d like to look at some solar prominences. The phrase of the week is “speculative polar cartography“. And some good…

In the year 2000 we will all drive Pussycars. Atlas Obscura wants to take you on a tour of Lovecraftian locales. There are people who dedicate themselves to writing about…

I’m not going to lie to you, I think pictures of taxidermy are way more wonderful than actual taxidermy. Anarchy (covers)! In the future we will all commute by private…