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Important news: there are some amazing things inside chicken eyes. Experimental Music on Children’s TV is my favorite thing today. Chung Ling Soo and the failed bullet trick. It is always a good day to discuss space elevators. And now…

Oh hello there, Sweden’s Atlantis. Oh hello there, saber-toothed frog. Oh hello there, very strange new mite. Oh hello there, world’s oldest crystals. Oh hello there, pretty cool book tumblr.

Today in amazing local news: Phoenix is crawling with packs of chihuahuas. And you may ask yourself, how wrong is my timezone? Irina Margareta Nistor is your Cold War hero for the week. Let’s all explore the abandoned 1984 Winter…

The feral buildings of Hong Kong (are neat). I don’t usually post things like this, but Faces of Olympic Figure Skating is the most important thing that has ever happened. As long as we’re breaking rules, pop culture dolls of…

Very important: it is nearly impossible to castrate a hippo. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to drink Japanese sports drinks on the moon soon enough. You guys I just remembered that Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs is a thing! Let’s…

Don’t even worry about those asteroids my man, we’ll probably be fine. Finland is really leading the way in reindeer antler safety. Umberto Eco wants to talk to you about maps of imaginary lands. On old Boston and NYC’s epic…

One of the secrets of Joe Gould’s Secret is no longer so secret. Now let us discuss corpse wax. How about a historical atlas of NYC? Very very important military pizza technology. Perhaps the Vitruvian man had a hernia.

MC will be back tomorrow morning. Happy President’s Day.

Good news! The world’s oldest bird just had a baby. On the genetic effects of slaves and empires. THE STONE OF MADNESS. In honor of the day: dating advice for spiders. Antarctic Mars simulations are a pretty neat thing about…

More and more people believe in astrology (you probably are one of them). On irony and Nazi fonts. I don’t know if you know this already, but Iceland is magic. FUSION! Now you can smell your way through urban history.

As it turns out there are even more fish in the sea. Here are some vintage magician posters for you. This is not the world I want to live in: did you know that crocodiles can climb trees? This is…

Ok ok, let’s talk about Saint Valentine. I sure hope this is the worst story I’ll read this week, but these days… The ICE/ISEE-3 satellite is coming back to earth after 36 years and we have no way of talking…