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Long story short, there’s so much danged water out in the solar system. (Maybe send some here?) The strange loss and rediscovery of the tree lobster. Hey look it’s Cervantes! Pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before: ranchers are creating…

All the customized coffins you could possibly ask for. Visualizing the sound of the end of war. (wait, what?) If we want to find alien life we should be looking for the gaudiest planet around. Aqualung ocean wings yes please…

I know it’s a Monday but I just want you to know that we live in a world of competitive pyromusical displays. Maybe you’d like to see Antarctica’s first sunset of 2015? Where’s my luxury steamliner bus? Now is the…

Not every day you get a brand new island. Not every day you find a hidden ocean on one of Jupiter’s moons. Not every day you find a 250-year -old pretzel. Yes, but what are we GOOD at. We should…

Dark days: welcome to the age of because as recognized preposition. Why didn’t anyone tell me space architect was a job you could have? The desertification of Mongolia (hurray for dioramas). So, what happens when the queen dies? Bauhausify the…

The BBC takes you inside NASA’s giant rocket lab (so thanks). It’s time to admit that no one likes jazz. Here is your staircase porn for the day. This 6 way kidney swap is the craziest thing I’ve ever read…

1850’s post-earthquake Japanese catfish paintings are one of the strangers phenomenons you could encounter. On menopausal killer whales. Today in man-Dubai-seems-pretty-nuts: The Miracle Garden. Now let’s talk about sheep brains. Hey there new but prehistoric moth!

Who doesn’t love a good ship graveyard? Charles Babbage summons the devil. It’s time for the walls to start peeing back. On the quest for endless (solar) flight. Now let’s just enjoy some tilt shifted Van Goughs.  

There’s a new first person in town. We should probably all go to the new Bedlam art museum. A lot of the time synesthesia just goes back to fridge magnets. The Soviet avant-garde Columbus monuments that could have been. Will…

Way to accidentally fix color blindness, scientists! I would very much like a court regulated dolphin partner. Colson Whitehead on the loser edit that awaits us all. We are all (linguistically) Ukrainian (sort of). Here’s that 14th Century illustrated combat…

It’s Errol Morris Week over at Grantland, so I don’t know why you’re still here. Hey but it’s pretty neat that there are still lost cities to discover! Similarly: oh look it’s Genghis Khan’s fortress. Let’s talk some more about…

Horrible, horrible statues. I can admit that Google’s zip line view is pretty cool. 19th Century dramatic dinosaur fossil drawings. More on those restored Antarctic buildings. Looking up in Hong Kong (gives you some cool pictures).