Friends With Secrets, the transcripts of three people chatting with their online therapists.

Fossil algae can now be used to trace CO2 levels back 500 million years in a continuous record. “The data confirms the idea that rises in CO2 levels that used to take millions of years are now happening in a century.”

Monarch butterfly populations in the west are down an order of magnitude from last year

Learn About Tom Hanks, Star of Tuber & Hoonis

From Neil Cicierega, who you may remember from this hilarious recap of J.R.P.G. Torkelson’s Lorne of the Rings trilogy, comes this short guide to the film career of Tom Hanks, including his best-known works like Tuber & Hoonis, Sadness in the Saddle, and You’ll Get Soil. I woke up feeling a little blah this morning, but this cheered me right the hell up.

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From music critic Ted Gioia, the 100 best albums of 2018

Payless Shoes opened a popup store in LA called Palessi and sold their budget shoes for 100s of dollars to unsuspecting fashionistas