Weird Inside the hollow Earth are aliens, Nazis, and the Lost Tribes of Israel David Pescovitz

History In 1803 a woman in a strange round vessel washed ashore in Japan Ellsworth Toohey

retrocomputing Bring back the computer-advertising raccoons Rob Beschizza

politics Stocks dive again as Wall Street realizes Trump has no idea what he's doing Rob Beschizza

Science Why a horse fly bite hurts so much more than a mosquito sting Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Dyson Trees could make a home for humans—and other things Rob Beschizza

Science World's deadliest spot: the horror of Lake Karachay Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Optimize your hell by adding RFK, Jr. to the mix via his online "Real Debate" Jennifer Sandlin

health Bizarre health fads: a roundup of the top 10 strangest fake medicines Ellsworth Toohey

Space What are these strange metal spheres that fell from the sky in India? David Pescovitz

maps This excellent video from 1947 uses a grapefruit to show map distortion Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet In 1818, John Cleves Symmes Jr. declared that the earth was hollow Futility Closet

space exploration Japanese scientists find water and organic matter on Itokawa asteroid Gareth Branwyn

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music Hollow Earth Radio: "local music, found sound, paranormal encounters, crank calls, dreams, etc" Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

happy mutants On Fire: Naomi Klein's book is a time-series of the shift from climate denial to nihilism to Green New Deal hope Cory Doctorow

usausausa Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Cory Doctorow

Science Five-story-high spikes of ice could make it difficult to land on Jupiter moon David Pescovitz