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Inside the bizarre giant ghost city of Naypyidaw, Burma. At least all this pollution is giving us cuter tinier sea life. The immense Columbus monument that could have been. After…

Why aren’t film cuts just constantly destroying our brains? The battle for Toledo. Fanzine heartthrob Hitler. On Seattle’s mystery soda machine. Sometimes attempts to fix plumbing just lead to centuries…

Will return Monday! I love all of you.

Exciting times, whale enthusiasts. Finding the oldest stone tools by accident. Relatedly: we’re getting some pretty good insights from chimpanzee hunting. Apparently no one had ever filmed knuckle cracking before.…

I suppose this means it’s time to look back at some of the horrible ways we tried to take over Cuba. Unbuilt London (I live for these sorts of things.…

Actually important linguistic news: the rise of the singular they. Ghana’s bootleg movie posters are some of my favorite things in the universe. Welcome to the future, the UN is…

Flying oceans of magma is a good phrase to start your week with. Oh great, a newly discovered terror bird (the universe is terrifying). Everything is also terrible: the drought…

The most delicious space cloud. Brighton’s unfinished necropolis. What can we learn from the feral chickens of Kauai? (spoiler alert: a lot I guess.) The time has come to construct…

If you live in the Bay Area the Dan Weiss Institute for Dan Weiss Studies and Technologies has its second meeting tonight. If you DON’T live in the Bay Area,…

GREATEST news: welcome back brontosaurus! Meanwhile, NASA is pretty sure we’ll see aliens in the next decade. I realize I should have linked to the moon hoax a week ago,…

Why hasn’t anyone invited me to an Explorer’s Club dinner yet? Inside the (pretty racist but working on it) theme park town of South of the Border, South Carolina. Speaking…

Sometimes you just need to start your week with some hypnotic geometric GIFs. Complicated sexy mice songs. It’s time to meet Lucy’s neighbor Little Foot. 1920s California offshore casinos were…