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Isaac Schultz
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Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.

Nobody Cares dude. You are the 10 millionth person to publicly claim their outrage at something and threaten to quit. It’s cliche at this point. Read more

I was wondering the very same thing!
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Third, the society stated it would actively involve the public in the determination of the animals’ new names. Read more

OH GOD NO PLEASE DO NOT GET RID OF BOOBIES AND TITS! Read more

Whatever fixes they put in place, they should allow the Musk stickers to continue. I’m sure as a “free speech absolutist” he would wholeheartedly agree. Read more

Oh boy, this is great. My friends are going to decide I’m insufferable within the hour. I can’t wait! Read more

Hope there’s a followup, like will they be cleaned and restored? Read more

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were they from the Judean People’s Front or the Judean People’s Front?

Or more specifically, the same weight as the adult population of Foster, RI. Read more

But here’s the crazy part: the titanic whale weighed anywhere between 93.7 and 374.8 tons (85 and 340 metric tons). In common internet parlance of the 2010s, one could consider the Eocene whale chonky, perhaps the chonkiest creature of all time. To put it in perspective, at the upper bound of 374.8 tons, that’s Read more

On one hand, chimpanzees and gorillas have been observed kissing, so you are probably right — kissing is older than Homo sapiens. On the other hand, there are quite a few human cultures, most of them completely unrelated to each other, which had no concept of kissing until Western expansion mixed everyone together:
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I don’t care who you are, that’s definitely the oldest known figurine of Link and Epona from the Legend of Zelda. Read more

If the idea of a fucking 7 foot talk chicken isn’t the perfect reason to keep the 2nd amendment and abolish gun control laws, I am outta here. Need 15 rounds? I need 500 for that damn chicken if it is coming after me. Read more

That was only about a metre high. More of an anxiety bird than a terror bird.
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