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Are we still listening to the echos of the big bang? The giants of roadside America (this is the kind of thing I live for, let’s be honest). Be sure to check back here for all your important Great Horned…

Here are those horrifying sex patents you asked about. I don’t know if you guys know this, but Oregon’s history is, like, crazy racist. Darwin was almost not allowed to go on his voyage because of his nose. All the…

Nothing but stairs in abandoned buildings, you got a problem with that? Here are your 2014 international words of the year. Can we save our cities with fonts? (spoiler alert: probably not really, but maybe I guess?) Great news! Now…

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the pearl diving mermaids of Japan (warning: nudity). Don’t worry, Canada does horrible things too: on the bizarre ESP experiments conducted on aboriginal children. But some good news! Moog is recreating their classic…

Ellen Craft is your amazing historical bad-ass of the week. Before the iron age there was the (mainly Inuit based) meteorite age. Mysterious creatures at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Duh: you love your phone too much and being…

Following up a theme for the week: algorithm your way to true love (2015 is real weird you guys)! It is very important that we all get together and buy an ancient Turkish city. On Bill Cunningham’s hats. Today in…

Are you ready for the crazy and pointless technology of the future (today)? Fairy weddings are one of the stranger things people have been in to. Today seems like a good day to talk about Stephen Hawking’s voice. How to…

The future belongs to salt-grown potatoes. Aphids are weird and gross. Today in duh: pets radically change your brain. On the cultural life of whales. Let’s all take a trip inside the 25th annual ice hotel.

Obviously the problem is that our clocks are way too accurate. Important news: the people at NASA are dorks. Elsewhere in space, a star just got swallowed right up. Great news men: you can live up 20 years longer and…

It’s Friday, so let’s all let Buzzfeed talk to us about owners getting eaten by their animals. On the Mega-Manhattan that could have been. Remember that time people were sure that Haley’s Comet would kill us all? Appreciating Tokyo’s rockabilly…

In case you were wondering, here is the video that CNN will play when the world ends. How doctor’s die. Let’s all explore some lost underwater cities this year. Atlas Obscura looks at some of the world’s highest currencies. Important…

Some days you just want to look at vintage menus and Do Not Disturb signs. Update: no you can’t ask the internet to guess how many coins are in your jar. Another year, another even more earth-like planet found. So…