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Basically we should all be terrified of “dormant” volcanoes. I bet you’d like to see some pictures from the Global Reef Expedition. Water is, like, crazy old you guys! It’s very nearly October so how about haunted Japanese real estate…

Today in the world being a very strange place: let’s take a look inside the CIA Starbucks. Hey look! Maybe we’ve found a planet being formed! The International Highline Meeting is honestly the scariest thing I can imagine. Surely we…

I hope that the Budapest Smile School is the weirdest thing you read about today. Being struck by lightning is more terrifying than I can imagine. Attention nerds: big deal prime number news. Maybe Marco Polo came to North America?…

Hold everything, Lonesome George is on display in New York! A short history of European animal trials. Look I know that Christmas Island SOUNDS nice, but I promise you it’s crawling in crabs. Important news: Curiosity found a weird ball.…

Hey look, we might have a new oldest person ever. Hey look, we might have a new oldest shipwreck ever. The hidden world of underground cities. Long story short, we should probably all move to Alaska. Remember that time we…

Also climate change is making polar bears eat geese. We’ve got about five billion years left in this galaxy. Let’s all take a tour of the world’s deadliest garden. Here is some British fairground art for you. Did the invention…

Welcome to the fall (tomorrow), perhaps you’d like to know about the chemistry of autumn leaf color. BBC Earth looks at the insane world of sexual organs. Yes, but what about American secessionist movements? What are you doing there, giant…

Woah woah woah, Chris Ware is releasing a serialized novella over at The Guardian. The mortuary railway and other secrets of Sydney. Asking the important questions: do animals cry? The Atlantic on World War 2 and the beginnings of the…

It’s pretty neat that we can still unearth five thousand year old monuments. Today in global warming being confusing: there is more sea ice around Antarctica than ever before. Would you be able to escape a tsunami on foot? Here…

The water just outside the Golden Gate Bridge is littered with ghost ships. A giant word search puzzle of everything Borges ever wrote is a thing you could make I guess. Photographing the world’s largest container ship being made is…

The world is a beautiful place because one time Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went to the North Pole together. Actually Schizophrenia is a whole lot of different disorders. The future is filled with totally illegal laser weapons. The future…

There is no such thing as too many soviet space dog links. Look, we’re ALL hallucinating. Here are all of 50 Watts’s Don Quixote posts for you. Aerial shots of Adriatic beach resorts are a pretty neat thing to look…