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Jelani Cobb on honoring MLK 50 years later. Here are some quarries for you. (Some) frogs are doing great! Today in the dystopia: direction apps are taking people up streets…

And you may ask yourself: why are there so many Thai restaurants? Maybe we can partner with the climate skeptics to work on geoengineering? Maybe AI can stop shark attacks?…

In honor of yesterday: terrifying Easter bunnies and horrifying 19th century pranks. Let us now discuss Ursula K Le Guin’s electronic album. We should probably talk about this new organ.…

Today in the dystopia: elderly Japanese women are getting themselves thrown in jail in name of security and support. What is life but a fatberg? Hey look at these very…

Scoping out March For Our Lives via a grandpa and a high school kid. Hey look it’s a male angler fish! Where did bugs get their wings from anyway? Now…

While you were offline probably doing super unimportant things, a flat-earther blasted himself into orbit. Tragically lost in Joshua Tree. What is life but a museum of collapsed buildings? What…

It’s Friday so let’s talk about Drag Race as linguistic driver. You’ll always be an alien to me Atacama Mummy. What is life but a cemetery slum? You can never…

Just in case you were feeling good today: the last male northern white rhino has died. Let’s take a look inside North Korea’s tourist hotels. Even Amnesty International has had…

Guess what? We live in a horrifyingly racist country and the effects of that are far reaching. So you want to know about Hawking’s final paper. Meanwhile: why does the…

Today in the dystopia: hey why not arm the homeless too? David Foster Wallace and the horrors of Neuroscience. Let’s all go on an anti-road trip. What is life but…

PSA: Ear Hustle, the very best podcast, is back! Time for some time crystal research. We here at MC are no fan of Scott Weiner, but thanks for this new…

Good morning, microplastic pollution in our oceans is much worse than we feared. Oh cool, just what the world needed, an even whiter thing. Maybe we found Amelia Earhart after…