Links of the Day

Burke & Hare in the 21st Century

Crossing Over: How Science Is Redefining Life and Death

The Octopus That Ruled London

Goat Rituals and Tree-Trunk Gravestones: The Peculiar History of Life Insurance

CT Scan Shows Pharaoh Ramses III Was Murdered By Multiple Assassins

Satan and the Harrowing of Hell

John Gray on Philip K. Dick: Lost In the Mulitverse of History

The Dominatrix Class That Changed My Life

Downwinders: Life Near Nuclear Explosions

Miss Atom Bomb

Links of the Day

Albert Camus, Stranger In a Strange Land: New York

Richard Fariña: Lost Genius Who Bridged the Gap Between Beats and Hippies

Why Cryonics Makes Sense

How Words Shape Our World

School of Unexplained Knocks: Life Advice From a Professional Ghostbuster

Radar Scan Stokes Mystery Over Shakespeare’s Missing Skull

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Bounty On Two Shrunken Heads and Joe DiMaggio’s Bat

Stanley Hotel To Indefinitely Suspend All Paranormal Investigations.

Louisiana Flooding Unearths Caskets From Cemeteries

The Age of the Blade Runner Flying Geisha Advertisement Is Upon Us

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Links of the Day

Nights of Terror, Days of Weird: Selected Letters of Terry Southern

A Witch Is a Witch Is a Witch

Is the Future Award-Winning Novelist a Writing Robot?

The Suicide Note as Literary Genre

Bolivia’s Cholitas: Female Wrestlers Put Discrimination in a Stranglehold

Intelligent Machines Might Want to Become Biological Again

Further Adventures in Human Curiosity

The Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much

Microsoft Deletes ‘Teen Girl’ AI After It Becomes a Hitler-Loving Sex Robot After 24 Hours

That Time an NFL Player Saw a UFO

My Time as a UFO Investigator for the Government

Links of the Day

The Eerie Grave of 200,000 Monks

What Is the Future of Artificial Intelligence?

The Lost Rolls and the Unreliable Shadow of Memory

Does One Ethnic Group Own Its Cultural Artifacts?

The Man Who Invented Dothraki

Iron Age Man Found Buried With Spears Sticking Out of Him “Like a Hedgehog”

Amateur Metal Detector Finds Crucifix That May Change the Historical Record of Christianity

The Walking Dead and the Importance of Dead Bodies

Hatha Yoga Inspired Abstract Art a Century Before Rothko

Jerry Lewis’ Lost Film: The Day the Clown Cried

Victorian Murder Pamphlets

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Links of the Day

Occult Collection of Doreen Valiente to Go On Public Display

Why Do Humans Like to Get Drunk?

Found: Manuscript Written By Lovecraft and Commissioned By Houdini

The Return of the Black Panther

The Godmother of Manga Sex in Japan

Malcolm McLaren’s Son to Burn Punk Memorabilia Worth Millions

Night Soil and the Men Who Carted It Away

When Museums Rushed to Fill Their Rooms with Bones

Enlightened Artificial Intelligence

Isaac Newton Was the World’s First Counterfeiter Cop

The Green Man’s Journey From Nazi to Sweetcorn Salesman

Black Magic Selfies

Links of the Day

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

The Religion of AI

Why Artists’ Studios Often Go Up In Flames

The Strange History of Opiates in America: From Morphine for Kids to Heroin for Soldiers

Judas Has Had Lousy Press, As Prominent Clerics Call for a Reappraisal of the Disciple Who Betrayed Jesus

There’s a Name for When Our Language Evolves When It Acquires Negative Connotations

Should We Subject Presidential Candidates to Psychiatric Testing?

The Problem With Invisibility is the Blindness

After Moore’s Law: The Future of Computing

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