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Look we’re not saying that you can’t get to Mars, just that you’re going to starve to death very quickly. But I bet you’d like some midcentury space design now. Staying in orbit for one more: back in dino days…

I bet you were thinking “I’d really like to play some Edo-era Japanese games on my computer today.” Hey look, it’s Alexander the Great’s dad! This is an article about how we should use toddlers as disease canaries. A bit…

Long story short, the whole Third Reich was just totally messed up on crystal meth all the time. What can we learn from social spiders? Here is your pool noodle based art installation for the day. Let’s talk about 19th…

Will be back tomorrow.

Thanks to metafilter, now you can have all of the Soviet propaganda art. Stop freaking out about teens sexting. But DO start teaching small children calculus. Very important space suit design news! Hello there brand new strange particles.  

Whelp, I guess it’s time to start eating crickets. I’ve linked to a lot of these before, but you can never have too much Soviet space art. Do sharks have personalities? Sure maybe I guess. There was a horrifying time…

More Soviet space dogs! More forever! 1000 Shadows is your Brazilian/French art installation for the day. Mapping the apocalypse. Let’s all watch some beautiful chemical reactions. Why yes, I WOULD like to look at some vintage Spanish sci-fi illustration.

It’s time to talk about ant slave revolts. Erik Kwakkel is the world’s expert on medieval doodles. Everything we know is wrong: there’s basically no reason to make kids do homework. Surrealist tarot deck (is a neat thing). And now…

We are living in the golden age of deep sea mapping. The questions on everyone’s mind: what’s so bad about Danish sperm? Futurists in 1900 and today rank the letters. Voices of East Anglia remembers Decimal Day. Let us now…

Important news: dolphins can recognize magnets. Here are some hypnotic flight pattern gifs for you. Actually, beavers DON’T chew off their own testicles. Breaking: holloways are neat! And now an underwater fashion show.

You’ve had your accent since before you could speak. Fritz Kahn is so great! Perhaps you’d like to watch Mongolia from eagle back? The history of island civilization is that of weird winds. An (actual real) apology from the Salem…