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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 too steep to drive. Here are some miniature absurdist dioramas for you.

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? Maybe there’s life on Venus? There are walls.

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. Appreciating Marie Tussaud and her wax figures.

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 old footsteps in BC! Photographing Chinese bicycle graveyards. Where’s the…

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 let us discuss the long strange history of medicinal turpentine.

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 is life but a Craigslist mirror? In 1933, four cows…

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 have too much North Korean photography. The long strange life…

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 enough of Twitter abuse. At least we’ve got space junk…

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 universe have to be so empty? Has 21st Century urbanization…

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 a violin made from destroyed NYC buildings? Photographing the unplanned…

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 statewide Net Neutrality bill. Sudan’s forgotten pyramids (are nice to…

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 all? The death and life of a great American building.…