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Did we just find life’s missing link? Coltsville, USA is your doomed utopia for the day. Elsewhere on Atlas Obscura: the strange beauty of city models. Very old Canadian ships. The question is, why don’t naked mole rats get cancer?

Hey look, it’s a new oldest known relative of modern birds. Centuries of quackery. Welcome back Large Hadron Collider! And now some movie palace porn.

Behold! The farthest of all galaxies. Now we can 3D print rhino horns, but you probably shouldn’t get too excited. So many historical images of Antarctica. The forgotten days of hog drives. Stretchy whale nerves is your phrase of the…

Nepal’s kung fu nuns are your actually very important badasses of the day. on Spalding Gray, Oliver Sacks, and Big Fish. Here come the portable cloaking devices. Stop feeding birds (counterpoint: birds are the worst). Now you can listen to…

Welp, here comes warp drive (maybe). The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments. Inside Spy Mountain. Here are those WWII ship wrecks you asked for. And now Soviet space pins.

Hey look a bat dinosaur! Perhaps you have wondered about Missouri’s shape. I’m mainly linking to this because of the phrase “ruddy blood falls“. Runaway galaxies! All of the midcentury prehistoric creature illustrations you could hope for today.

This is unfortunately a very appropriate time to look back at Baltimore’s civil unrest of the 1830s. Meet the T. Rex’s new vegetarian cousin. Perhaps you’d like to look at some name tags from a medieval orphanage. Atlas Obscura on…

I love a good rare book theft mystery. Back in the good old days of treadmill crane labor. On the bike highway LA almost had. Meanwhile, in the present, it’s time to terraform the LA River. Here are those closeup…

It’s not that poetry is dead, it’s that, mathematically, it’s dying. Georg Wilhelm Steller is your 18th Century naturalist for the week. The time has come for the TIFF once a decade poll of the top ten Canadian films. We…

We’ll be back to full-fledged Friday entries next month after DWIF DWEST activities have subsided, but in the meantime enjoy these wildlife and revolutionary war veteran pictures. I love all of you.

Marianne North is your historical bad ass of the day. But save a moment for (possibly first in flight) Gustave Whitehead. 19th Century escort cards. Maybe most of Christianity happened because of a meteor. Maybe a lot of things. Ready…

Dark matter (maybe) ruins everything. Here are those 1920s Soviet Constructivist movie posters you asked for. Perhaps you have wondered: sup with clouds? Perhaps you have wondered: sup with human body hair? Very fast Japanese trains (like, so fast).