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Maybe Stonehenge is a giant prehistoric glockenspiel. Maybe a lot of things. I sure would like to go to a 1950s flying saucer convention. Pluto’s moon might have an underground…

Today in I’m-sorry-mom: second children are a lot harder on women than men. Very important dinosaur blood news. Yes, but what did they SOUND like? Perhaps you would like some…

THERE IS SO MUCH WATER NEAR THE EARTH’S CORE! How do you treat a mentally ill bonobo? (haven’t we all asked this?) Furthermore: What’s up with Canada’s wolves? Give a…

Looking at designs for new sea exploration ships is what I live for. Victorian occultism and the art of synesthesia. Book towns of the world unite! What are the most…

Perhaps you’ve wondered: what makes those new/old book smells? Elon Musk wants to give you a flying car too. I’ve never wanted anything as badly as I want to go…

Can we genetically edit HIV out of the picture? (Maybe!) Let’s talk about rat regrets, rats regret a lot of things. No matter what else is wrong with the world…

Life in 2014 is weird: behold the first Vine from outer space. Time is (culturally) subjective, man. “1783 was a big year for ballooning.” Maybe you’d like some midcentury German…

Sometimes popular fiction can end hundreds of years old feuds. Today’s Wikipedia page: Time in Antarctica. Self-entombing construction equipment of London. Perhaps you have wondered what’s up with the incorrupt…

Welcome back big-eared bat! Your flying car is (always) only two years away! I could really go for some mammoth meat right about now. On the fake rooftop towns of…

Here come the sperm-bots. Here come the bakeable origami robots. 2014 is a time of genetic replicas of Van Gogh’s ear. Jacque Cousteu’s grandson is up to some cool stuff…

Today in ruin-porn: abandoned mental hospitals! Today in ruin-porn pt 2: Rochester is a cool looking pretty empty place! Tomorrow’s hotels today! On the evolution of silent crickets. I sure…

These old pictures of the Field Museum are basically the best thing about today. Let’s all x-ray some mummies! Picturing the Russian suburbs. Today in inflammatory news: watching porn is…