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Maybe there were, like, tons of moons. Lebanon’s racist, gendered architecture. Isn’t it time the dolphins started to protect themselves (or their smaller relatives). Let’s hear it for overpasses and…

A look inside LAX’s new anti-terrorism facilities. (2017 everybody!) How about a look inside a very old pencil factory instead (I’m sorry this text is in German). Pickles: what’s up…

There are few things better (or sadder) than dogs in space! What did the Soviets imagine for 2017 (bet they didn’t dream that their countrymen would have stolen a US…

It’s Friday SO LEAVE THEY LIVE ALONE.   Let’s all look back on the building of the Second Avenue subway. Dusting for an ancestor’s DNA. Algorithming away petty crime. (What…

Hey guess what? Rural voter over-representation is ruining everything everywhere! Welcome to the age of anti-surveillance clothing. Australia is crawling with feral cats. Can drag be survive and be subversive…

Can’t believe I forgot to talk about Public Domain Day yesterday. Very important dinosaur baby gestation time news. Let’s all explore an abandoned Japanese island! While we’re here: let’s all…

Well, here we go. Start your year off right with some straight up movie theater porn. Here are those Mexican drug lord mausoleums you were asking about. These bullets that…

As we approach the madness that is the holidays and the end of 2016, we’ll be taking the next two weeks off. In the meantime here’s a quick guide to…

Relevant questions part one: So what can cities do now? Relevant questions part two: So how do we fix the internet? Here are your architectural photographs of the year. Dark…

500 years of failed utopias. Ultimately, few things are better than the road signs along Route 66. Rolling churches of Bucharest. The glory days of competitive pipe smoking. Glow-worms are…

Stop everything and read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece “My President Was Black.” The allure of submerged civilizations. Mummering is making a comeback. This is the most genuinely evil computer virus I’ve…

What should you be terrified of in 2017? The answer was floating monorails the whole time! Woah woah woah, newly discovered Da Vinci? Did Milton create Sci-Fi? (spoiler alert: I…