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Start your week right with Japanese funicular trains. We’re probably totally wrong about when farming started. Fill your nightmares with visions of prehistoric anus-eyed creatures. All my favorite scientific breakthroughs…

This feels like a good time to talk about trans soldiers of the Civil War. Sweet sweet slime music. Important armored dinosaur news! On the architecture of sports. I bet…

Start your day weeping at Patti’s Smith’s words for her buddy Sam Shepard. Now cheer up with some talk about the co-evolution of humans and dogs. Modernist brickwork of the…

Travel back in time to the scientific advances of the great eclipse of 1919. What’s the point of Sci-fi if it can’t help your with you business am I right?…

Wake up and think about Emperor Norton. You wouldn’t think North Dakota would be leading the way in prison reform, yet here we are. The important questions: who invented the…

Give a moment, here at the start of your day, to remembering the great June Foray. Hypnotized by the Hyperloop. Sometimes you just want to look at brick walls of…

I mean who DOESN’T love a brain in a jar? Maybe decreasing sperm counts is what will finally doom us? We could all stand to learn a thing or two…

Take a moment of your day to remember the dearly departed Microsoft Paint. Future cities rising from the past. Here come the self-driving ships. Don’t worry, ticks are doing GREAT.…

Today in Everything is Fine: so, CAN the president be indited? Masses of beautiful alabaster, on the poetry of icebergs. And you may ask yourself: how do the cities of…

Everything is bad but at least we’re living in a golden age for microbiology. Droning your way across Hong Kong’s vertical architecture. But are video drones just creating aerial imperialism?…

Giants of Modernist Architecture arena tour 2017. Important dog origin news. Still more giant squid news while we’re at it. What is life but a Florida firefighter’s Instagram? The best…

Look at this dang peacock mantis shrimp. So you’ve been struck by lightning. There are so many giant squids off the coast of Ireland (apparently). Protecting Constructivist Ukraine. Sup with…