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Pooh Prescribed. You’ve wondered. Don’t lie. People looking sweaty vs. chic or me, pre vs. post caffeine. Squid, reanimated. Not for the squeamish.

Sperm whales have the biggest brains and they know how to use them. Is your baby already asking for a touch screen? We may have more doppelgangers that we can…

The Smiths, in superhero cartoon form makes tons of sense. Look no further than here for your daily dose of excerpted saccharine verbiage describing Australian lithographs. Infinity’s been a problem…

Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss is on tour with his band. We will try to make due, but make no promises. For fans of middle school math and/or Egyptian mysteries:…

I’ll be taking a break for the next two weeks so my band can go on tour, but I promise you you’ll be ok. Another day, another story about the…

Here are some things involving the Milky Way. Are you very afraid of small clusters of holes? Aren’t we all? Perhaps we’ve been thinking about cancer all wrong. Soviet movie…

Scientists are probably just hoarding all the time travel for themselves. Visualizing a life. There is totally (probably) water on Mars, hella (probable) water. Warning: human jell-o is coming. The…

Evidently this is the saddest movie ever made (scientifically). Once again, the Onion has called me out. Weird French Nouveau islands. Pneumatic tubes are pretty neat. Holy cow whale sharks!

Fact: there are a lot of time capsules buried under LA. Daily Routines is a pretty neat site. (via Letters of Note.) Have we perhaps found the world’s first question…

Another day, another set of abandoned power plant photos. We all need Soviet kids books sometimes. Long story short: snakes and possums hate each other. Update from yesterday: volcanoes! My…

Long story short: most of our ancestors boned neanderthals, case closed. Anyone want to go to an underwater museum with me? Viva Mexican Modernismo! I bet it gets kind of…

First let’s all take a moment to appreciate the steepest roller coaster in the world. Now then, let’s talk about space! Oh my gosh, look at this comet hit the…