The Forgotten History of How Modern Art Helped Win World War II.

Meet Ancient Peru's own Grumpy Cat.

Apes Capable of 'Mental Time Travel'.

Silly Photos of Spiders Wearing Water Droplets as Hats by Uda Dennie.

The Loneliest Whale in the World?

Babies grok quantum mechanics The title of this article is misleading- according to the article itself, babies lose their "understanding" of QM when they learn to play Peekaboo.

The rise of the evolutionary psychology douchebag.

Were Paleolithic Cave Painters High on Psychedelic Drugs? Scientists Propose Ingenious Theory for Why They Might Have Been. [Via]

Jack Vance Memorial That jack Vance has left us here on the dying earh more inside

Slender Man: 21st Century Campfire Tale. [Via]

A Faithful Hound. [Via]

What Happened to the Mysterious Humans of the Sahara 7,000 Years Ago?

A 3-minute trailer and 12 minutes of clips from Terry Gilliam's upcoming film "The Zero Theorum" (intended only for the view of potential distributors) have been leaked onto YouTube. See them (or avoid the spoilers) before somebody notices... more inside

This Castle’s Toilet Still Holds Parasites From Crusaders’ Feces.

Hypnotic Wind-powered Kinetic Sculptures by Anthony Howe.

Cryptogams and the NSA As an attorney at Human Rights Watch who had worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan, John Sifton knew he was on a short list for NSA surveillance. So he gave the snoopers something to read by emailing himself passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Not a good idea. The worst part was when the Special Prosecutor asked him "why would someone write like this?”

Tree Man.

Icons & Lamps Pop culture for the older, well lit generation.

How 3D printing will rebuild reality.

"I am afraid that the problematic strain within Islam is not the province of a few extremists. It has at its heart a view of religion – and of the relationship between religion and politics – that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies. At the extreme end of the spectrum are terrorists, but the worldview goes deeper and wider than it is comfortable for us to admit. So, by and large, we don’t admit it." - (byline) Tony Blair was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Since leaving office, he has founded the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Faith and Globalization Initiative.