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Perhaps you’d like to peruse 98 years of Girl Scouts catalogs? It’s pretty dang amazing that designing the suits we’ll wear on Mars isn’t a purely speculative exercise. Here’s some…

Let’s all take a journey inside the world of AOL disk collecting. Important questions: why don’t elephants get more cancer? Photographing New York’s 1970s lunch culture. Off-season Chinese amusement parks…

Lights of the Moscow Underground (I fully admit living for this garbage). Midcentury medical illustration on psychosomatic illness. Here are some optical illusions to start off your long weekend. We…

Greetings newly (twice) discovered hog nosed rat! Mary Anning is your historical bad ass for the week. Why is the placebo effect getting stronger? (Like, seriously, what is wrong with…

It’s October 7th, is the world ending today? On the decline of play and the rise of children’s mental disorders. Here’s your Belgian installation art for the day. Laser razors…

So many space photos. Thank you for everything prehistoric beaver. A brief history of owls. News item: volcanoes control everything basically. Let us now discuss the drinking habits of Antarctic…

Important news: Astrid Lindgren was so great! Somehow I missed this news story about sending robot squids to Europa. Backyard atomic gardens of the 1960s. Here are some 19th Century…

And you may ask yourself, what DO crows understand about death? Protip: spend your weekend watching wildebeest migrations. The future is all bamboo pavilions as far as the eye can…

Slow day out here, so let’s talk about pooping in space. Might as well have some space sounds too. Welcome to the ultimate map of punny businesses. Swinging Toronto. Hooray…

As long as it’s on everyone’s mind, let’s enjoy some old maps of mars. Is there an evolutionary purpose to masturbation? The Book of Delightful and Strange Design. Viruses are…

Who wants to help me find New York’s hidden grid bolts? The beautiful specificity of insurance codes. Let’s all take a look inside an astronaut training simulator. Let’s all also…

Still working on some hiccups over here so please pardon our digital dust. I bet you’d be into this Dali illustrated Alice in Wonderland. Now what we really need to…