Links of the Day

Strange Magic: The Story Behind Auckland’s Temple of Higher Thought

Nessie Takes a London Holiday

Harvard’s Eugenics Era

The Strange, Accidental Allure of Craigslist Mirrors

Stolen Munch Lithograph Recovered After 7 Years

How to Win the War On Drugs

Scientists Explain the Evolutionary Advantage of Trypophobia

Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays

How Klee’s Angel of History Took Flight

Vladimir Nabokov, Scientific Genius

Wolves Have Local Howl Accents

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Links of the Day

The Voyeur’s Motel

Paul Bowles and the Hypnotic Clamor of Morocco

The Forgotten Female Action Stars of the 1910s

Why We’re Hardwired to Hate Uncertainty

Writers Who Spied: The Unsurprising Link Between Writing and Espionage

When Venom Is Too Powerful

Australia’s Other Flying Doctors: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers

Thomas De Quincey and the Deadly Rivalries of 19th Century Magazines

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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

The Duchess of Kitsch

Clinton Would Consider Declassifying Government Documents Related to UFOs

The Wildest Rumpus: Maurice Sendak and the Art of Death

Basket Builders Vacate Ohio’s Most Famous Basket Building

The Mystery of Crow Funerals Solved

Schizophrenia and Subvocal Speech: Why People With Schizophrenia Hear the Voices of God, Spies, and Supernatural Entities

The Painting That Tricks the Eye

We Are Already Violating Virtual Reality’s First Code of Ethics

The Presidential Penis: A Short History

Raunchy, Raucous Coney Island

Donald Trump, Trickster God

Rise of the Creepynet

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Links of the Day

Making the Tarot Literary Again

The Maddeningly Magical Maths of John Dee

Library of Congress Acquires Four Decades of Courtroom Art, Spanning Manson to Madoff

Iconic Mistresses in Art History

What Can Dung Beetles Teach Us About War?

Scientists Discover How To Upload Knowledge To Your Brain

Could Chimpanzees Have Religion?

ET Search: Look For the Aliens Looking For Earth

Hilma af Klint: Painter of the Astral Plane

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Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No. 5, 1913-1915

Links of the Day

Delving Into the Shadowy World of Occult Art

Man Pleads Guilty to Murdering Cross Dressing Vodou Priest

Dutch Cops Are Teaching Majestic Eagles to Hunt Drones

Iceland to Build First Temple to Norse Gods in 1,000 Years

The Turing-Acid Test

Italian Police Seize Mussolini’s Yacht From Businessman With Ties to Mafia

“I Don’t Dwell on the Morbidity of It”: Inside the Mind of a High Wire Walker

How the Video of Christine Chubbick’s Suicide Became a Very Macabre ‘Holy Grail’

The Brain Banker

New Hieronymous Bosch Painting Discovered in Kansas City

Were Cats Domesticated Twice?

Cat Science

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

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Links of the Day

Changes in Climate Have Always Made Things Worse for (Accused) Witches

Knight Fights: Inside the Strange and Savage World of Medieval MMA

The Secret Meaning of Ghost Stories

“Shakespearonomics”– How Scientists Are Unlocking the Secrets of the Bard

Ancient ‘Dragon’ Found in Wales

Victorian Death Relics

Where Are All the Aliens?

Green Sentimentalists Forget Something: Nature is Brutal

Death of a Gravedigger

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The Death of the Gravedigger by Carlos Schwabe