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I have only just discovered the Paleofuture blog. It chronicles past visions of the future like jetpack mailmen.

“Was this my destiny? Writing words in order to make gullible people be auto-forced to watch ads?” An AOL content slave speaks out. And this comment nearly killed me. “Wait, AOL still exist?”

Beautiful Proteins are beautiful proteins.

The animal that’s a sheet: a fantastic look at placozoans

“Do you worry that the research you do might be exploited in a way that harms people?” A great post on an important topic by two students embedded in a lab that tests how the human body crumples and explodes.

The names of 30 elements are an anagram for the names of 30 other elements & THE SUM OF THEIR ATOMIC NUMBERS IS THE SAME. Mind-blowing.

“A giraffe had to be trained to urinate in a cup, & Ferrero had [an] encounter with an uncooperative jaguar” The smell of a meat-eater.

A brain implant restores memories in rats by recording and playing them back. That. Is. Incredible.

Incredible! A camera that enables you to focus long after the picture is taken

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