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Doctor Zhivago as CIA propaganda. Let’s talk about mummy tattoos. Let’s talk about hummingbird DNA. Here are some 1850’s scientific engravings for you. Richard Teschner and his puppets (Are also neat).

I’m back and I come bearing baby octopuses (I promise never to leave you with no notice again). More Soviet space illustration! On a similar note: THE TRAIN OF TOMORROW! I guess everyone cares about thrones this week or something?…

Yes, this winter was real awful (I saw from mild and dry California). Important goat news: they are way smart. Island fortresses! Maybe we have a better idea of where Autism comes from? Now 50 Watts brings you 1920s Swedish…

Very old cheese. We all want to look at Instagram photos of North Korea. Art deco Japanese railway posters. Woah woah woah, what are you doing there, rings around an asteroid? If anyone needs me I’ll be on the space Mayflower.

howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com is the most important thing I’ve found today. Why do we procrastinate? (because we are jerks is why, basically.) Yeah! And why do we cry? The Afronauts are making the rounds again, as well they should. And now the…

Let’s start today by thinking about octopus consciousness. The thing is guys, we’re just SO good at smelling. The golden age of identical twin based space research is upon us. Time to see what kind of pictures our digestive process…

Bad news criminals: now police can reconstruct faces using DNA. Tardigrades are pretty much the best. Behold the Soviet house of tomorrow! The golden age of cassette design. Everything old is new again: two new colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in…

We’d all like an ornamental lawn hermit from time to time. Another day another new terrifying dinosaur. Harper Lee responds. Mount Everest is maybe getting some ladders and the world is a little less bad ass. Hurray for old science…

Darwin’s children’s scribbles on his manuscripts are my favorite thing today. We all need some 1920s Japanese children’s illustration (the other kind) from time to time. How about some morning talk about sky burial. Why you can (or can’t) hear…

This week in whimsy: water sliding through Bristol. Guys, we absolutely killed the moas. Now let’s all go inside the 1964 New York World’s Fair! Perhaps you need some long-form journalism about the world’s greatest juggler in your life? Drunken…

So let’s talk about this big bang news. Tales of politics (and bears!) coming to blows. News story: old Europeans were not good at depicting animals they hadn’t seen. The forgotten ghost stations of a divided Berlin. And now some…

Celebrating 100 years of Tove Jansson (in case you didn’t know, Tove Jansson is literally the best). SOMEONE PLEASE BUY ME A VINTAGE SPACESUIT THANKS. “Good news for fans of medieval maps!” Photographing a very large tree is pretty neat.…