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Ta-Nehisi Coates comes home. Maybe you’d like a computer injected into your eye? Hey no thanks. Facebook as digital graveyard. Maps of the end of the world. Look at all…

The 1950’s imagine nuclear New York. I think we’ve gone through this before but why do you hate the word moist? All the 1900s tipi decorations you could ask for…

Admit it, you’d like to know about the woman who rooted out spiritual fraud for Houdini. Here’s your simple guide to quantum entanglement. Let’s all take a moment to appreciate…

Happy 100th birthday (yesterday) Jane Jacobs. What’s going on in the UAE? Not much, just building a mountain to increase rainfall. Today in cultural tourism: school photos in the Arctic.…

we’ll be back tomorrow, for now we’re busy screaming into the void about how terrifying the future looks.

“Hey I was hoping I could look at some New York buildings on other planets today.” This week in cultural tourism: let’s all check out a Slavic Muslim wedding. I love old movie…

I don’t care if you’ve already read too many Lemonade think-pieces, it’s time to read what Hilton Als has to say. Longstory short: Walt Whitman pretty much was a cooler…

It’s that time again! Time to talk about the actual stakes and misunderstandings of the vice-presidency. Where’s my underwater bridge to Gibraltar? All the turn of the century tornado pictures…

Mapping the brain’s language filing system (is apparently a thing we can do). Here’s an adorable lil new distant moon for you. Perhaps you have wondered: sup with the rattle…

Do plants have memories? Maybe! Let’s talk about water taste. Now let’s go on a tour of a Stasi prison! What the world needs is a very tall wooden Swedish…

Do dolphins speak in holograms? I’m going to say absolutely yes. I’ve been saying this for years: Chicago is probably the best positioned major US city for global warming. End…