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Occupational alphabet, circa 1844 (rad). Trash-sucking tubes (exciting). (via Flavorwire.) Runaway subway (terrifying). Demolition is beginning in Coney Island (sad). (via Movie City News.) Vintage calculators (simplicity).

Some times you don’t have to try and sugar coat these things. Department of this-world-is-totally-terrifying-and-awesome: Peru battles rabid vampire bats. Look, lets be totally honest here, conceptual electricity pylons is a pretty great phrase. These are pictures from a 1957…

Just another reason to love Japan: Kyoto’s Iwatayama Monkey Park. The sweetest montage video you’ll see all day. Pretty darn fantastic dirty car art. (via Flavorwire) Ok, this video is all sorts of cute too: otter plays with rock. Logo…

America: home of jet busses. My love of old books may not be as innocent as I’d assumed. Everyone loves a good 19th century panorama. Giant frozen lake art huzzah! This has been a very good week for South American…

Vintage Tokyo subway manners posters (yes)! This is a literary website sometimes, so we should probably link to these newly redesigned F Scott Fitzgerald covers. I’m not going to lie to you, I think these urban-vertical-farming design ideas are pretty…

On the one hand the world is a little less magical, on the other it’s pretty cool to understand how the Bermuda Triangle works. A little Chilean architecture porn to start your day off right. Everyone likes living wall installation…

Whale evolution is pretty cool right? (via Jon Adams.) Meanwhile, these days, frozen aquarium. We here at the Rumpus are really into Christian Weber’s photography. Ahhhh! Yesterday’s power stations of tomorrow, today! Because it’s only Monday, maybe you’d like to…

Mary Roach on outer space irrational antagonism. Philip K Dick on the danger of Neo-Nazis in Science Fiction. Japan’s oldest woman is missing too! This is what German museums do when they need to go on hiatus. Desert Indoors is…

New findings in a long term monkey annoyance study (scientists are amazing). Flavorwire has your post-apocalyptic photography for the day. The census of marine life. I’m really sorry about all these deep sea creature photographs (no I’m not). Everyone loves…

Canada has some new sea creatures too. The Horseshoe Shrimp on the other hand is very very old. You can now read Howard Zinn’s FBI file, which is sort of cool you know? (via GerryCanavan.) Who needs mosquitoes? (Evidently no…

Sad news, Elvis’ autopsy tools are no longer up for auction. Why yes, I would like to look at your giant Turkish yacht. This is what Madrid looks like. Public Collectors is your rad Tumblr of the day. There is…