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Oh hey look it’s (probably) the Santa Maria! Surrealist torture is the cruelest torture. Way to be great and kind of terrifying Glacier Skyway. Speaking of: we are officially out of luck, glacier collapse-wise. But at least Cuba has really…

Isn’t it amazing that there are people figuring out how much dinosaurs weighed? Emerson’s letter of recommendation for Walt Whitman. How do you decide what a self-driving car is going to hit? Maybe you’d like some midcentury atlas porn? It…

Yes, but what does a speck of space dust actually LOOK like. Architizer looks at high concept new prison designs. Very important whiskey news. Hanging out in a Congolese airplane junkyard. Magnets will make you feel better.

Welcome to known existence “Pinocchio Rex“. New York City is filled with secret libraries. Soon New York City will also be filled with parachuted grilled cheese sandwiches. “Carnival in Mexico (1940).” Space makes you fat, nauseous, and sad.

I’ve said this before and I will say it again: goblin sharks are gross! Let’s all take a trip to the Moulin Rouge kiddie matinee. News item: Hong Kong has pretty cool neon signs! And you may ask yourself, how…

Surely you want to look at some 1960s astronaut pictures. Here come the pollution based parking meters. The club sandwich oceans of Jupiter’s moon. Charles Dickens breaks the worst news as gently as possible. Hurray for Czech illustration!

It will be really sad when there isn’t any more soviet art to post on the Internet. Important news: lynxes sound super weird! Globes! Let’s all hear it for globes! Globes! Pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before: young mouse…

On gender bias in lab mice (woah). You guys, paper books are totally just better! So much of what we know about the digestive system is because one rad fur trapper got shot in the stomach. Here is what we…

Japan’s future energy plans are way cooler than your future energy plans. As long as we’re in that corner of the world, 1950s Japanese illustration (is great). It is a great tragedy that we do not have the rocket boots…

Bilateral gyandromorphism is your genetic anomaly of the day. The world is filled with abandoned amusement parks. The trees that miss the mammoths. (Don’t we all though?) I don’t want to freak you out or anything but tornadoes are absolutely…

Today seems like a good day to talk about that time a Pope’s corpse was put on trial. BibliOdyssey has some Thai fortune-telling manuscripts for you. Hello there, earliest known pterodactyl. My new band is called Black Hole Skin. And…

The Cold War was actually pretty great (in terms of helping us find lost ancient cities). Meanwhile: let’s all enjoy some Soviet spaceship interiors. SYNCHRONICITY ON THE INTERNET: Soviet visions of the transportation of tomorrow. Cuttlefish have nothing to do…