Links of the Day

Endangered American slang needs your help

How family tragedy turned Roald Dahl into a medical pioneer

Why Christians, including Tim Kaine, are conflicted about execution

Lost city of Atlantis found?

The strange and deadly musical properties of a spiderwebs

How to develop pictures from a corpse’s eye

The second life of one photographer’s ad images

Why am I friends with your dead pet on Facebook?

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

How Does Valley of the Dolls Hold Up As a Read Fifty Years Later? 

Photography’s Blue Period: The Cyanotype

How Brain Oscillations Respond to Teleportation

Wittgenstein Bewitched

The Digital Future and What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

I Escaped From a Serial Killer

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During the Renaissance, European Royals Became Obsessed with the Werewolf Family

RIP to the Print Edition of Soldier of Fortune Magazine

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Links of the Day

Science Is Proving Some Memories Are Passed Down From Our Ancestors

The Sound of Satan

What Would Happen If Aliens Contacted Earth?

How Photography and Phrenology Helped Make Abraham Lincoln President

Jazz Reality and Fiction: The Bright Comet of Wardell Gray

America’s Abandoned Space History

What This Medieval Wine Jug Can Tell Us About Islam

Could Machines Have Become Self-Aware Without Us Knowing?

Worlds Without End

Keith Moon’s Wedding Night Abseil and Other Marvellous False Memories

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Links of the Day

Boleskin Burning

Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace

Whatever Happened to the Flying Saucer?

Crows Caught on Camera Making Tools

The Strange Tale of the Snowflake Man

Memes, Dreams, and Themes

The Colossus of Rhodes Makes a Comeback

What Snowy Owls Get Up To When the Mercury Drops

The Beautiful Violence of War Photography

Meet the Ninja Lanternshark

Nazi Christmas

A creepy glimpse into Derren Brown’s upcoming, fully immersive psychological attraction, designed to manipulate the human mind. Sounds like a great time!

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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

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