this week’s popular posts
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we don’t serve their kind here : “clanker” from the Star Wars franchise has become a universal slur for robots jeanine, you’ve changed : a ... -
The culmination of the five year effort which saw the passage of US Joint Resolution 23, begun on the centenary of the 1870 death Confederat... -
ped x’ing : an urban hawk takes advantage of a crosswalk signal to shield it from view as it stalks its pigeon bounty—via Clive Thompson’... -
Witnessed on this day in 1990 by two unidentified hikers in the moors above Calvine in Perthshire, the pair later told their account of the... -
Though both Republicans and Democrats regularly engage in gerrymandering , depending on the party in power when it comes time for redrawi... -
Via Kottke and though sadly the crisps that appear in the spot are not an actual product, we applaud alternative energy giant Vattenfa... -
Launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on this day in 1961, the Vostok 2 capsule carried aloft mission pilot Gherman Titov, who became the ... -
Outliving her discoverers and with a career spanning the Victorian Era, under the care of a succession of Edinburgh naturalists, the beadle... -
Courtesy of Strange Company , we are directed to the curious lay brotherhood charged with allievating the spirits of those facing immi...
