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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.…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…