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Today’s weird fact: the military once asked Walt Disney to make Iron Man style suits. We are living in very dark times for pubic hair grooming. 2013 was also a…

Stardust is filled with water, life is magical basically. The sad story of Steller’s sea cow. The history of beards is a whole lot more racist than you might have…

In the future your elevator knows where you are going. The future is also all about worm goo. Photographing Romania’s crumbling post-soviet infrastructure (is a thing you could do). Why…

Happy MLK Day! We’ll be back tomorrow morning. Be good to each other.

Oh that’s where we left that species, upside down under the Antarctic ice shelf. The NY Times spent over 100 years making a dumb mistake. Sculptural cartography is my phrase…

It makes me so happy knowing people are studying the skin color of dinosaur-age aquatic creatures. Google is coming for your thermostat. Science proves that commutes are the worst. No…

Good news! Sex sort of makes you smarter! We primates are the laziest and that’s great! You guys, we really (probably) can get to Mars before long. Incidentally: channeling Martian…

Painless Parker is your new favorite dentist of all time. Sigh… permit to hunt one of the last black rhinos auctioned off in Texas. Actually, we probably shouldn’t both mining…

An important science question: ‘sup with these bubbles? Pretty soon we’ll be able to just glue your heart back together. Sharks also win the migration game. Speaking of terrifying things,…

Biofluorescence is everyone’s favorite phenomena. Here is the United States population in Canadas. Meanwhile, in the world of never made films, the Miyazaki Pipi Longstocking that could have been. Great…

Let us now praise the elephant shark for having the slowest of evolutions. Hangover cures through the ages. Chickasaw is now a dead language. Friendly robots of the Soviet Union…

I nearly forgot! Here is what animals went extinct last year, and here is what could have been public domain THIS year. BBC has your nightmare inducing future timeline infographic…