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Protip: Don’t unleash 1.5 million balloons over a major city. Now some FRENCH vintage movie posters! In the future all news will be delivered via scented bubbles. Obviously we need to bomb Mars. Oh hello there newly discovered 19th Century…

What we all need today are some relics from the uranium rush. The oldest (recently) living woman and the limits of life. Have crime rates been falling all because we took lead out of gas? Ads in the 30s were…

I want to believe: is there still a underground “house of the future” in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park? While we’re on the topic, Silicon Valley is losing its domes. The world sure does get hit by asteroids a lot. The solution…

Seems like a good time to talk about monkey math. Here comes powdered alcohol. 1970s feminist trading cards. Maybe we just aren’t good enough for Celebration, Florida. The professional grotesques of Nicholas de Larmessin II.

The Bonnie and Clyde ambush was 80 years ago this week (also it turns out they were very short)! So, how close are we REALLY from finding life on other planets? Exploring the abandoned metro stations of Barcelona. Speaking of:…

Yes, I’ll link to the earth-like planet discovery too. Carl Sagan sounds like he was a pretty cool dad. The science of funk. How about a bit of 1920s satirical Spanish illustration. Why didn’t neanderthals get autism? (In related news:…

The whale poop hypothesis. Actually that wasn’t the world’s oldest message in a bottle. Let us now discuss Victorian era bathing machines. There is literally no way you don’t want to look at these pictures of a 13-year-old Mongolian eagle…

Perhaps you have wondered when men hit their grumpy tipping point. It is your patriotic duty to vote for new space suits. Why do you have to keep raining on my parade science? Flavorwire has some very important taxidermy for…

I will never get tired of 50 Watt’s ongoing 70s and 80s cosmic Japanese art series. Let’s all go to the 1982 World’s Fair! Maybe Saturn is making a new moon right now? Cuttlefish are kinda the best dudes. Elsewhere:…

Wait did you just say space cherry? Napping will definitely (maybe) kill you. One-Star Book Reviews is your tumblr for the whatever. Important news: the Mesa Lab looks cool! Here come the glow in the dark highways.

Why don’t we all live in Arctic City? (Maybe someday we will all live in Arctic City.) Here come the bio-engineered vaginas! News item: beaked whales dive hella deep dudes! The art of Kurt Vonnegut. From courtship to marriage, 1890s…

Behold the world’s oldest message in a bottle. The golden age of hippie sellouts. Science has some asteroid nightmare fodder for you. How about some midweek Soviet ruin porn? “Wait wasn’t this supposed to be a literature site?” Sentences from the…