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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 you. All my issues with the Goodnight Moon bedroom. We…

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. SECRET MOON ARTIFACTS! Soviet cosmonauts, on the other hand, carried…

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 the left. Recovering a 100 year lost font (I’m glad…

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 country. A brief history of unicorns. On the surrealist fashion…

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 will make Iceland tower above us all. Actually Australia you…

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 rediscovered Spanish Civil War photos. Today in ruin porn: a…

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. The future is all virtual reality on airplanes. Very small…

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 in it. I guess chickens are smarter than we thought…

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 thing to remember is that someday we will run out…

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 all be bilingual for lots of reasons. Now let us…

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 climate change. Your negative tweets are killing you. Or something.…

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: the strepsiptera is a gross and upsetting insect. Behold! The…