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Another worst mass shooting in America. Once again, Google and Facebook have failed us. But is it time for inmates to be allowed social media? At least when things are very terrible you can think about cats in the sea…

Everything is terrible but sometimes a sea turtle carries out a dying person’s wish. God is a bot (the city I live in is the very worst city). Tiny architecture of Kyoto (is nice). What is life but an extended…

Highly highly recommend listening to Five Thirty Eights podcast on next weeks Wisconsin Gerrymandering Supreme Court case. The future of the military is a giant armed nervous system and what could go wrong with that? Something I’ve been thinking a…

Jelani Cobb on ungrateful as the new uppity (this is great and important). Elsewhere in the New Yorker: Archaeology in an East Village classroom. What is life but a fancy revolving restaurant? The return of the company town. Maybe there’s…

Lakes of mercy and human sacrifice: Teothuacan reveals itself. Sometimes you just want to look at old chrome decals. Sometimes you just want to look at a jet fly through a rainbow. Of course pandas are still in trouble. Moths!

Mapping the (striking lack of) accessibility of the world’s metro lines. The remarkable patience of the Staten Island bat watchers. On the bizarre 200-year disappearance and reemergence of Vivaldi. Hey look at this new hermit crab! Very important “vegetarian” dinosaur…

Great news! We can look inside (maybe) Jules Verne’s time capsule. Snopes is the true unsung hero of our age. The bizarre case of New Zealand’s Exploding pants. Fill your weekend with images of sleeping jellyfish. It is always a…

Very important: let’s all go be firefighters on Antarctica. What the hurricanes bring up (mostly sea monsters). Everything is still very bad but at least the ozone is repairing itself. Darran Anderson on the glory days of the crystal palaces.…

Michel Foucault, high on LSD, in Death Valley. The important questions: are wolves better problem solvers than dogs? Let’s all explore Pripyat before and after their nuclear accident. Here’s your Victorian skeleton erotica for the day. The geography of church…

Maybe civilization is actually the worst? Water towers of Luxembourg. I didn’t know my dream job was to be in charge of killing spacecraft, but now you know. So you need to feed your zoo animals in a natural disaster.…