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Real talk, if you haven’t yet you should really read Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene. New advances in the world of dog origin theories. Paper dresses used to be a pretty big thing. Here are some pictures of…

Did you know that the original spacesuit was made by a bra manufacturer? But what happened after 12 Years a Slave? (Spoiler alert: no one knows.) NASA made this video about what Mars might have looked like 4 billion years…

The key to finding alien life is looking for purple (something something Prince joke). Atlas Obscura brings you submerged towers and abandoned Santa parks. Maybe you’d like to check out some plant and rock based interactive sound installations. Photographing Victorian…

“Huh” is the universal word. Today is a day for baby cuttlefish. Don’t worry, this crab’s third eye is probably a conjoined twin. Dolphin diseases are the saddest diseases. Now let’s all pretend we’re at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair.

Here is the secret troll that protected the Bay Bridge (for a while). 80s mall photos are pretty sweet huh? How much does Twitter owe you? (It owes us $11,860). What do last names tell us about upward mobility? And…

Life, uh, finds a way; bacterium thrives in spacecraft cleanrooms. It’s been way too long since I’ve linked to a 50 Watts post. The Guardian looks at the awful political beliefs of great artists. Obviously the time has come to…

Hold the phone there, giant prehistoric platypus. It is a very bad time to be a rhino. But like, do dolphins actually like us? This has nothing to do with animals: more abandoned toy stores and factories, more more. And…

This is how Margaret Atwood turns down blurb requests. Maybe we’ve been misinterpreting Beowulf for 200 years. Maybe a lot of things. NASAgifs is your tumblr for the whatever. The cosplayer at home. Way to have depicted science’s first Asian…

Let us now praise famous modern airport architecture. Here are some psychedelic Spanish pharmaceutical ads. A dust avalanche ON MARS. Hey you know what, science pretty much backs large soda bans. And what of the burgeoning ashes in space industry?

Here are your 2013 photomicrography winners. What America needs is two less timezones. Let’s all listen to the world’s oldest complete surviving song. 19th Century lunatic asylums then and now (are pretty crazy). New Scientist has all the face illusions…

Last night was Halloween and we here at MC are taking the day off. We’ll be back on Monday! (all other Rumpus business will be running as normal!)

Happy whatever. What could be spookier than oooovvvveeeerrrr ppppooooppppuuuullllaaaatttttiiiiiooooonnnnn. Beware the lava planet! Relevant: no, sugar doesn’t make children hyper. Hermits and feral children also give me the creeps. And now let us talk about the ghost in the rainbow.