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A signal of distress

11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health

Formatting in MS Word

Mayonnaise Hatred: A Brief History of Mayo and Disgust

Do you have vertigo? Do you want some?

Babybel Cheese Wax Is The Ultimate Artistic Medium

Nobody Knows What Built These Weird Little Web Structures

Map of Where 29,000 Rubber Duckies Made Landfall After Falling off a Cargo Ship in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean (#19), and 39 Other Informative Cartographies

A Lovely English Garden Full of Deadly Poisonous Plants

Nooooo! It are my birthday!

Walter Koessler project: An extensive personal look into World War I

What Is the Icelandic Word for “Four”? Fjórar. No, fjórir. No, fjögurra. No, fjarki. No …

Making Everyday Activities Trippy

Jupiter Structural Layer Cake

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World

Cartoon Laws of Physics

Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod

Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming in Conversation (1958)

Fearsome Font Friday

“Sharknado” saves the summer!

“Umami” Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to Describe Its Taste

9 Superheroines Who Deserve a Movie

‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ by George Orwell

Disaster Preparedness: San Francisco Emergency Drinking Water Hydrants

Orwell’s birthday celebrated with party hats on surveillance cameras

In an appalling decision, the Supreme Court stops use of a key part of the Voting Rights Act

Supreme Court’s ruling overturns both the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8

Desktop Backgrounds Designed to Make You Smarter

Prairie dogs’ language decoded by scientists

Public Art Marks Hurricane Evacuation Spots in New Orleans

English is no longer the language of the web

Neil Gaiman novel inspires Portsmouth street name

Social Networking in the 1600s

Scientist Drinks Billion-Year-Old Water Just to See What It’s Like

World’s Smallest Museum Finds the Wonder in Everyday Objects

7 Productivity-Boosting Tools to Fight Procrastination

Essential Guide to Living Lovecraft: The Real World Locations Behind the Horror

Mr. Bunny Goes to Work

I’m Sorry That I Hit You in the Face With an Encyclopedia

Tiny Festive Party Hats Made of Yarn For Cats, Dogs, and Guinea Pigs

Skull and Crossbones Sugar Cubes

Cuttlefish eyes

Ghostly Ship Graveyards from Around the World

Game Designer Creates Board Game Meant to Be Played Thousands of Years from Now

Late Arrivals, Goldfish, and Guinea Pigs: Unofficial Soldiers’ Clubs of WWII

Winners of the Webby Awards 2013