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Dogs are doing their part (by smelling poop). A bit more on that subway study, truthfully we don’t know WHAT this junk is. Here are some 1930s fashion drawings for…

This weekend was the deeply controversial maybe centennial of feature films, here’s a couple of fascinating essays on 100 years of Birth of a Nation. Let’s talk about chimp accents.…

Yes, the NYC subway might have a little bit of the plague, but you shouldn’t freak out too much. Oh hi Pluto. Ursula K. Le Guin on the future of…

Returning to a theme from yesterday: there is nothing you can to convince an anti-vaxxer. Lilac and turquoise are, like, SO basic. Here is what kills people prematurely in every…

Great news: 50 Watts seems to be posting regularly again! Here’s a winter sports alphabet. Meanwhile, a few years down the road, radio wave fashion of the 1930s. Global warming…

Clickhole for the win: My Doctor Told Me I Should Vaccinate My Children, But Then Someone Much Louder Than My Doctor Told Me I Shouldn’t. Hey look it’s some newly…

Will Gadd just climbed a frozen Niagara Falls, what have YOU done today? Sometimes I’m just glass to live in a world where people study the acoustics of whale skulls.…

It’s a Friday so I get to lead with a story about a blind baby seal. The important take-away here is that the Eiffel Tower once had a penthouse apartment…

Super-Saturn is the word (phrase?) of the day. Back at home: bad news on fake Mars. Taking a walk through Rome’s sculptural skeletons. Meanwhile, in Florida: zombie cat! The saddest…

Maybe you’d like to look at China’s 1980s antarctic expedition? B-movie title design of the 70s and 80s (huzzah). Some dang old planets. Long story short, we should maybe probably…

While those of you on the East Coast are freezing, let’s watch some subway cars get thrown into the ocean. Aboriginal storytelling can help us chart thousands of years of…

The question for the day is, why are ants so much better at managing traffic than us? Checking in on the art of Christian Marclay after The Clock. Important news:…