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Look I know we don’t have hoverboards or self-lacing shoes yet, but have entered the age of DNA art. We all need Soviet space art every day. Meanwhile, on the…

It’s time to look at what could have been public domain this year. Just in time for a couple of days ago, on the origins of the Coney Island Polar…

One last post for 2014. Thanks for reading, you are all the best. The year in terrifying science and great cinematography (check this link back later today for part two).…

Another short week this week, we’ll be back to normal next Monday. 2014 in images from space and things we shouldn’t have stuck up there. It is imperative that we…

We’ll be taking the rest of the week off. See you soon and try to be good to each other out there.

The very best Christmas presents 1916 has to offer. Perhaps you need a 1960s illustrated guide to the human race? 2014 in scientific breakthroughs and disappointments. Tokyo is in a…

Another day another couple of recaps. 2014 in great sentences and award winning nature photography. You guys, NASA just emailed a wrench to outer space. Maybe pollution is causing an…

The Big Picture’s year in reviews are one of my favorite things about making it through another twelve months. Elsewhere in year-ending lists: 2014 in record breaking feats. They know…

New things are happening again: the first ever documented case of anxiety-based deja vu. How will we feed ourselves after the apocalypse? (good news we’ll still have soda!) On a…

Climate change is filling the world with grolar bears. The future of elevators is (almost) upon us. Also: male birth control pills are (maybe) (almost) ready. Here’s some midcentury book design…

Happy Tuesday, let’s talk about books bound in flesh. Get ready for the Manhattan Project National Park. San Francisco’s most famous shipwreck has finally been found/mapped/appreciated. How the Victorians invented…

Great news! Someone figured out belly lint. Maybe there’s a mirror universe out there where time runs backwards. Maybe a lot of things. Someone stole a bunch of orca teeth.…