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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…