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How the world’s first floating hotel ended up as a doomed wreck in North Korea.

The BBC creates step-by-step instructions for knitting the iconic Doctor Who scarf.

The surprising benefits of lifelike baby dolls.

Vibrant botanic embroideries embellish the dried leaf sculptures of Hillary Waters Fayle.

Brazilian artist creates heartbreaking comics without using a single word.

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QAnon is a Nazi cult that has been rebranded.

Population control was no joke in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

Small town in Australia chooses to look the other way on its favorite cult-owned cafe.

Craftsman Gabriel Dishaw upcycles Louis Vuitton bags into elaborate Star Wars helmets.

Photographer show differences between North and South Korea.

Street artist paints an amazing illusion of a sphynx cat on an old gas tank.

Ten famous asexual figures from history.

Incredible photos of New York City when it was covered in farmland.

A look at Julia Tyler, who was a very controversial woman in the 1800s.

Tiny birds that look like flying cotton balls live on Japanese island.

Someone posed as Bigfoot in this $999,000 house listing and the photos are hilarious.

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Someone has made 38 hours of playlists that trace the evolution of hip hop and you can listen to it for free.

51 illegal photos of North Korea that Kim Jong Un doesn’t want you to see.

The false promises of worker retraining.

Smile, DC Metro riders, you could be this artist’s model.

The countries that get by without a government.

Nineteen facts about the deindustrialization of America that will make you weep.

The point of Patreon isn’t how many people earn a full-time living, it’s how much of the money from art goes to artists.

Oprah Winfrey is one of the world’s best neoliberal capitalist thinkers.

How a nearly successful slave revolt was intentionally lost to history.

This flapper’s dollhouse costs more than most people’s homes.

Mexican cities secede to escape corruption and cartels, forming corporate dystopias, precarious utopian projects, and Mad Maxish militia towns.

How Christians can emulate Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the age of Donald Trump.

Real books are back. E-books sales plunge nearly 20%.

Republican lawmakers are surprised to learn that no black soldiers served under the Confederacy in South Carolina.

A look at the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike.

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People are sharing hilariously bad stock photos of their jobs.

Meet the economist behind the one percent’s stealth takeover of America.

Portugal confronts its slave trade past.

Pet parrot creates bizarre shopping list on owner’s device.

Use your white privilege to fight racism.

The cult of violence always kills the Left.

These photos show the evolution of the laptop computer.

The Woke Parenting Guide to 24 children’s books about protest.

A look at how leisure time is changing for North Korea’s privileged.

Living Colour’s “Vivid” at 30: The band reflects on the rough road to their game-changing classic debut album.

Revealed: Secret right-wing strategy to discredit teacher strikes.

How the loss of U.S. psychiatric hospitals led to a mental health crisis.

The future of apprenticeships.

A look at the borders of the Confederate States of American superimposed on a map of human development in the United States.

How Phoenix will be almost unlivable by 2050 thanks to climate change.

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A look at the digital ruins of a forgotten future called Second Life.

U.S. mints coins for Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit that might not happen.

Fewer tourists are coming to the U.S. and experts say that it’s largely Trump’s fault.

Barbie “Shero” doll with a hijab honors Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad.

Martin Luther King may have been killed by a Memphis police officer, not James Earl Ray.

How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people.

Laminated jewelry crafted from vintage books by Jeremy May.

A look at the guerrilla grafting movement—secretly grafting fruit-bearing trees onto ornamental city trees in order to feed the poor.

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they are so pissed off. Hint: It’s not about the economy.

The surprising secret to aging well.

New York City has genetically distinct “uptown” and “downtown” rats.

Why the DNC is fighting WikiLeaks and not Wall Street.

How Australia all but ended gun violence.

83,500 vintage sewing patterns put into online database from Vogue, McCall’s, Butterick, and Simplicity.

Stunning images of pagan costumes worn at winter celebrations around the world.

Watch the illustrated version of “Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic.

The bots that are changing politics.

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CDs and vinyl are outselling digital downloads for the first time since 2011.

Here who isn’t winning from denuclearization talks and friendlier North Korea-South Korea relations.

This delightful magpie puppet is carved from wood.

Our president ignores an American hero: Trump’s silence on the Waffle House murders is deafening.

One pro-Trump avatar troll hacked the Instagram account of another avatar.

An abandoned radio station is an untouched time capsule from the 1940s.

Workers at Chinese factory for Ivanka Trump’s clothing paid $62 a week.

Secretly taped audio reveals Democratic leadership pressuring progressives to leave the primary race.

Global clothing company Patagonia donated its entire $10 million Black Friday sales to environmental organizations.

Meet the man who wrote “Conjunction Junction” and other Schoolhouse Rock songs that stick in your head.

Ancient Rome’s systems of roads visualized in the style of modern subway maps.

This writer explains the downside of writing for The Huffington Post for exposure instead of money.

A look at a new memorial for the victims of lynching.

That creepy abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park in North Carolina is reopening this summer.

Why we need to get over our obsession with the Joker.

Back in 1933 Frida Kahlo wrote a personal letter to Georgia O’Keeffe after O’Keeffe’s nervous breakdown.

Hackers can freeze the camera that lets you know whether your Amazon Key equipped door is locked and who is using it.

A visual guide to the potential ecological disaster of Trump’s proposed border wall.

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20 highly inspirational rules of life a Japanese Buddhist wrote four centuries ago that may change your life.

A new study suggests that the lower your social class, the “wiser” you are.

Cards Against Humanity buys area of the U.S. border in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from building his wall.

Beautiful color photos of Paris taken 100 years ago—at the beginning of World War I and the end of La Belle Époque.

A 15-point guide to surviving authoritarianism.

How the residents of a wealthy Bristol district have managed to ban birds from the trees.

A look at the first translation of The Odyssey made by a woman classicist.

San Francisco animal shelter hires a robot to force out homeless people.

You think your job sucks? Take a look at some real conversations from the clients from hell.

Black leaders in Memphis buy city parks and remove Confederate statues.

Inside the library that holds the world’s rarest colors.

A video showing the dark past of Sea Monkeys.

I am buried alive in a Michigan prison.

How 12 teens invented a solar-powered tent for the homeless.

The Disney version of Donald Trump is 100 percent less awful than the real thing.

When life gives you a divorce, get drunk and set your dress on fire.

10 reasons to visit the only country where North Koreans can take a permanent vacation.

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Believe it or not there was a time when the National Rifle Association actually supported gun control.

A series of photographs show the effects of nuclear bomb testing has had on a remote area of Kazakhstan.

A free tutorial on how to turn dollar store tea lights into the cutest snowman Christmas ornaments.

How the deranged took over America and why they may be here to stay.

There’s a cop who calls himself the “Riot King” of St. Louis and his behavior is scarier than his name.

Serialized television has become a disease.

A Tumblr user shares how naughty her great-great-grandmother was back in 1890.

Here is how you can create a professional camera rig for $200.

The history of Russian involvement in America’s race wars.

Study by MIT economist says that the U.S. has regressed to a Third World nation for most of its citizens.

A stock analyst downgraded Chipotle for paying its workers too much. That tells you everything wrong with the economy right now.

The anti-Trump resistance forgets that George W. Bush is a war criminal.

Paper cutouts turn landmarks across the globe into scenes of temporary amusement.

TrumpsHair is the site that lets you add Trump’s hair to anything.

Photos show the North Korea that neither Donald Trump nor the Western media wants the world to see.

How a narcissistic brand of nationalism is taking over the United States.

The deadly consequences of militarizing the local police force.

This Arab illustrator is empowering women through art.

Harvey Weinstein and the economics of consent.

Decline and fall: how American society unravelled.

How millions of white Americans bought into a racist myth.

The reason why Harvey Weinstein is the beginning of a new backlash against sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape.

Brad Pitt talks about his side venture as an artist.

Banning terrorists won’t stop terrorism.

10 stories about Donald Trump you won’t believe are true.

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6 ways to break the hypnotic spell of the mainstream media.

This is what it looks like when the president asks people to snitch on their neighbors.

Make these spooky masking tape mummy hands.

Chinese textile firms are increasingly using North Korean factories to take advantage of cheaper labor across the border while the resulting clothes still sport the “Made in China” label.

Why do so many super rich despise the poor?

Disabled and scraping by in the underground economy.

Seven weird side effects of President Trump that nobody saw coming.

“Magic yarn” wigs delight thousands of kids with cancer.

Straight people don’t exist, new research says.

The 50 best protest songs of all time.

How the Nazis used Jim Crow Laws as the model for their race laws.

The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back.

How to turn your passions into retirement income.

A brief dictionary to help you understand the terminology that the US far right uses.

Brexit, Trump, and sexual harassment are all united by the same chauvinism.

Inside Russia’s alliance with white nationalists across the globe.

How to spot and stop fake news.

A free tutorial on how to make your own gnomes from champagne or wine corks.

There’s a word for the state of American Democracy: Kakistocracy.

It’s time to stop sympathizing with Ivanka Trump.

Nikita Khrushchev’s granddaughter says that Trump uses the term “fake news” in the same way that Stalin once used the term “enemies of the people.”

Black Friday is about to become a victim of the retail apocalypse.

Meet 15 unique animals that you’ll have a hard time believing are real.

6 Civil War myths everyone believes that are really total bullshit.

10 examples of Donald Trump unraveling before the unraveling began.

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Magic Wheelchair creates incredible costumes for disabled children in wheelchairs.

What it’s like to have borderline personality disorder.

A camera store shows off gear wrecked by this summer’s solar eclipse.

Nintendo reveals that Mario of Super Mario Bros. fame is no longer a plumber.

Britain’s first zero-waste store is packaging-free and only sells ethical goods.

Half of digital media time is spent in five apps.

Clear-cut tropical forest revitalized with industrial orange peel waste.

What we saw in North Korea goes against everything western media wants us to believe.

The earliest known appearance of the F-Word, in a bizarre court record entry from 1310.

Six steps for dealing with cheapskate clients, especially if they won’t pay up.

STEFDIES is one woman’s amusing war against selfies.

13 most useless job skills employers don’t want anymore.

The two English cousins who fooled the world into believing in fairies.

Nine things you didn’t know were invented by women.

Stop waiting for Obama to fight for the DREAM.

Deceased 13-year-old girl breaks organ donation record by saving eight lives.

The Equifax Hack: What you need to know and how to protect yourself.

Former television news anchor is now an adult film star.

Breaking the unholy alliance between big money and mainstream media.

Nineteen girls in the last 67 years have worn the same handmade dress to school on the first day of kindergarten.

National Lampoon’s Presidential Vacation.

Researchers confirm that a Viking warrior discovered in Sweden was a woman.

The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women’s health advice.

The United States didn’t just help topple the Allende government in Chile—we trained the economists too.

Lost languages discovered in one of the world’s oldest continuously run libraries.

The English alphabet used to have six additional letters.

Photos of people who have found their doppelgängers in museums.

We’re spending so much time trying to become robots that we’re forgetting how to be human.

Japanese robot dog sniffs your feet and faints if they’re smelly.

A short, handy visual primer on how to rescue a wet, damaged book.