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

Links of the Day

How Mark Twain’s Ghost Almost Set Off the Copyright Battle of the Century

Clinton Aide Seeks UFO Files

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: The Original Ghostbuster

The Premature Death of the Video Store and Why It’s Worth Saving

What If ET Observers Called, But Nobody Heard?

How We Lost the Moon

The Spy In the Doll Shop

Aldous Huxley: Mescalin, Mystics, and Madness

Think Big, Be Free, Have Sex: 10 Reasons to Be an Existentialist

Links of the Day

The Dear Abby of Death

Cat Funerals in the Victorian Era

Ancient Egyptian Boat Discovered Near Pyramids

Capturing the Treasured Wisdom of Female Shamans in Russia

Mysterious Books Found In Dump Reveal Secret Writings of NYZMA

The Largest Gathering of Medievalists Happens Every Year in Kalamazoo

Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture

The Aesthetics of Hitler

Eyes Wide Shut: How to Cope with Night Terrors

Earth Is Made Up of Two Planets

The Superfluid Universe

Who Were the First Atheists?

The Afro-Nauts: African Cinema and the Rise of Lo-Fi Sci-Fi

 

Links of the Day

Dolls With Supernatural Powers Allowed Seating On Thai Smile Airlines

Folklore, Magic, and Mysteries: Modern Witchcraft and Folk Culture in Britain

Egyptian Village Blames Fires On Evil Spirits

The Disappearance of a Distinctively Black Way to Mourn

Why Did the CIA Release a Guide to Investigating UFOs?

The New Roswell: Air Force Shoots Down UFO After Radar Alert

Taxi Drivers Report ‘Ghost Passengers’ In Area Hit By 2011 Tsunami

Deranged, Rejected Score For The Exorcist the Director Literally Threw Out the Window

Remember When Stanley Kubrick Faked the Moon Landings?

The World’s Greatest Literature Reveals Multifractals and Cascades of Consciousness

Condolences From Death Row

When Chickens Go Wild

Links of the Day

John Dee Painting Originally Had Circle of Human Skulls

The Rebirth of a 1,000 Year Old Tradition

In Praise of Blue Notes: What Makes Music Sad?

The Logic Behind Conspiracy Theories

When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table?

Unearthing the Sea Witch: How Disney’s Villainess Was Inspired By Divine

A New Hideaway for the Loch Ness Monster

Links of the Day

Goodbye Vasectomy, Hello Sperm Switch

Dinosaurs Performed Dances to Woo Mates

How Contacting the Dead Became a Family Game

Looking for Aliens in All the Wrong Places

The Most Viewed File in the FBI’s Vault Has Nothing to Do with Roswell

Anti-Education by Frederick Nietzsche Review: Why Mainstream Culture, Not the Universities, Is Doing Our Best Thinking

How Scientists Hope to Find Alien Life

The Subculture of Medical Clowns

Here’s a New One — The CIA Assassinated JFK Over UFOs

Jaws Finds a New Home

How the Klan Got Its Hood

The Psychology of Going to War

Happy Birthday, Roy Batty!

Links of the Day

That Time Nixon Gave Federal Funds to Build an All-Black City

Remembering Visionary Artist Paul Laffoley

The Collages of Guy Maddin

Ancient Board Game Found in Looted China Tomb

New Heironymous Bosch Drawing Found

Scientists Find a New Way to Study Mystical Experiences Induced by Psylocybin 

Whipping Up a Storm: How Mapplethorpe Shocked America

Frontal Brain Wrinkle Linked to Hallucinations

100 Years Ago Today, A Nude Woman Appeared on Film for the First Time

Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown

Take Me to the Cosmic Vagina: Inside Tibet’s Secret Tantric Temple

Links of the Day

Pain and Ibogain: How an illegal psychedelic drug could help treat opiate addiction

Space Balls

The wine that comes with added bite

Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies 

Moon Hoon’s Fantastical, Mind-Bending Art and Architecture

The ancient city of Kane has been discovered

How Corsets Deformed the Skeletons of Victorian Women

The Last Homesteads

Which Sci-Fi Films Get Cited in Research?

The Celebrity Skulls of Bolivia’s Festival of Ñanitas

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Links of the Day

An Odd Couple: Samuel Beckett & Buster Keaton

The Solar System to Scale

White is a Dangerous Color

Hearing Voices: An Illness or a Cure?

Reconsidering Picasso the Sculpture

Back to School with the Übermensch

Skeletons of 200 Napoleonic Troops Found in Germany

How to Disappear Without a Trace