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The future of archaeology is in the (garbage we’ve left in the) stars. The future of tourism is all garbage tourism all the time. Hey look at this dinosaur-era bird wing. Lost gardens of old New York. Now I’ve got…

Start your day with some weirdo inventions of the 40s. Important news: whale sharks are great! Let’s all enjoy the art of Zelda Fitzgerald. Very important Mars travel news. Welcome to the age of electronic (actual) highways.

Start your week right, with a tale of watch thieving rings. I always knew seagulls would bring about the end of the world. But don’t worry, we can eat the plants we grow in space now. Air BNB as protest…

The war that keeps on giving! Archaeologists are finding ancient ruins in Cold War spy photos. Also from up above: picturing the urban legacy of apartheid. Why “Bugsy” tho? Also we’re running out of sand (have a good and safe…

Let’s all watch 20 satellites get launched at the same time. The Caribbean Sea is whistling into the cosmos. Here are those crumbling communist murals you were asking me about. Nabokov maps out Ulysses. Behold! The world’s ugliest color!

Take a moment of your day to remember the incredible Fan Ho. Life, uh, finds a way (to survive off of rocks and electricity). Today in beautiful and terrifying: picturing the Southern California wildfires. A short history of microfiche.

Actual good news from my home state: California will just fund it’s own gun violence research thank you very much. Destroy all grackles. Let’s talk about bug funerals. Don’t worry, we’ve filled the world’s deepest trench up with garbage too.…

Is everyone following this daring antarctic scientist rescue? On the existentialism of GPS. Why has no one told me about Brooklyn’s Art Deco airport? Let’s hear it for street fashion of 1960s Saigon. In a similar vein: all the vintage…

Bootlegger protips. Too many giant spider crabs if you ask me. It’s the weekend, here are that forgotten 1920s Parisian fetishwear company you were asking about. Let’s all go explore the lost hidden cities of Cambodia! Behold the London Time Ball.

So today you might have found yourself asking: what happens in the mind of the filbusterer? The inimitable Darran Anderson on the archaeology of street names. We’re all afraid of knowing everything. The Sky-Math Garden. Don’t worry, the aliens are…

Just lovely: Frog and Toad, an amphibious celebration of same sex love. There is absolutely alien life under frozen oceans (hypothetically). Sup with birds being smart tho? The Golden State is one step closer to abolishing Daylight Savings and I…

We’re back, sometimes everything seems so awful and confusing and scary. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I believe with all my heart that eventually things are going to be ok. Meanwhile, amidst the bleakness, here is a…