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This week in whimsy: 3-d foam art and the descriptive camera. Also this is a story about a dachshund and his lion best friend. It is for you. Now is a good time to talk some more about the death…

It’s my birthday and a holiday weekend, so we’re taking a couple days off. In the meanwhile here are some great tumblrs to fill your time. See you on Tuesday.

If you are dreaming a lot about animals, you might get Alzheimers (and other signs). Maybe aliens are just energy conscious. Maybe a lot of things. So it’s settled then: Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids…

Why are barns painted red? Because of dying stars. Very important news: yesterday the world’s biggest crocodile turned 110 (maybe). On the other side of feelings about the world, welcome to the age of beard billboards. Soviet board games of…

We, as a species, have built one large scale dam a day for the last 130 years (on average). Here are some books with awful original titles. I’m not going to pretend to understand this huge breakthrough in prime number…

Welcome to the week! good news: the world won’t be hit by a giant asteroid at the end of the month. Happy 50th birthday chaos theory! It is very sad that the world does not have this desert crossing vehicle…

Venezuela is out of toilet paper. Behold the Alternative Limb Project. If I’m reading this correctly, I could really use some electrical brain shocks. And now you’re midcentury design for the day, available in school library poster or Buckminster Fuller…

Watch out for the solar flare you guys. On plate tectonics and the origins of monkeys vs apes. Children of the 1980s build the city of the future. We all need some industrial disaster porn from time to time. And…

The time has come for vintage Swedish movie posters. Perhaps there is a submerged continent off the coast of Brazil. I imagine we’ve all wondered what New York City would look like on different planets. A NASA scientist explains to…

I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves “why is Mercury like an orange and not a peach?” 19th Century Japanese bird paintings (are neat). This just in: gas masks are terrifying huh? On standing in line in India. I am afraid…

Just in time for, uh, yesterday: did you know that the founder of Mother’s Day fought to have it abolished? Split in half food is a good thing to photograph. Abandoned Star Wars sets are too. Headlines of the future…

You will be missed western black rhino. No, glass really isn’t a liquid. Not to keep being a bummer, but the Toba super-volcano probably didn’t happen either. Now let’s talk about the occult and the father of rocket science. (Under)…