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I, on the other hand, thought Blue Jasmine was great, and that Woody Allen is one of the five or so greatest directors to ever work within the Hollywood system. The VW bus was still being made. The VW bus…

Getty Critics is my favorite thing today. Here come the (sort of) commercial flights to Antarctica. Everything great is a hoax, Horse_ebooks revealed. Vintage Vespa ads are the best ads. Are you 1918 army literate?

Science tackles the important questions: why do you want to eat babies? Monkeys are whispering (probably about you and your baby eating). What New York needs is garbage tubes. Let’s class things up with 19th century German botanical drawings. That…

This isn’t even fun anymore: 3 more super-earths found. Our schizophrenic’s voices are much more violent than other countries. Perhaps you’d like to peruse a 1970s Sears catalog. I demand more Soviet design, more more! Important news: aye-ayes are great…

Everything you think you know about space and time is wrong, the real answer is space crystals. A different take: Soviet propaganda for the non-Russian bloc. Terrible real estate agent photographs is your tumblr of the whatever. Are we really…

Yes, but how do chipmunks see the world? Let’s all take a trip back to swingin’ Thailand (in film posters). This is an article about Lenin playing a theremin, but it also features a picture of proto-hipster young Stalin. It makes…

A short history of failed San Francisco urban planners. I imagine you’d like to know about the world’s largest robot. I imagine you’d like to watch a BBC documentary about the history of automatons. Why you so quiet sun? And…

Today in alarmist studies: early talkers might turn into heavier drinkers. Maybe we are living inside a massive black hole. Maybe a lot of things. Have we already talked about the mechanical gears in this insect? Buzzfeed gets in on…

Congratulations left handed people, we sort of understand what makes you! Hey look, Aqua-Velvet is back! Butterflies and bees drink turtle tears! Elsewhere in the animal world: it’s always a good time to talk about zombie ants. And now let…

Hey guess what, we finally made it into interstellar space. This is what it sounds like. Important news: typewriters are pretty. Atlas Obscura has your ruin porn for the day. Perhaps you’d like to see some mid-century science exhibition postcards.

Smithsonian looks at the very first Syrian chemical attack. Have you ever seen an albino humpback whale? It’s a pretty great thing. If any of you readers love me you’ll buy this fossilised dinosaur battle for me. The secret to…