Four images of a cavity cut into a tree stump

Photograph of a woman's hand holding a cookie. It's been cut out using a plane-shaped cookie cutter and has red sprinkles on it in roughly the pattern of the famous Abraham Wald aircraft bullet hole image.

a card with two soft shots of Captain Kirk fighting a white horned alien

screenshot of tumblr posts
@theryangeorge: "Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime' is about friends practicing witchcraft but then someone walks in and they have to suddenly play it cool
Lyrics
The moon is right
The spirits up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
[somebody walks in] SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUI CHRISTMASTIME SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME

@never-forget-viva-la-pluto: This is the funniest thing have ever read

@dontthankthefae I have to hear this song nonstop while I'm working and this makes it so much better

a paper napkin with three larger pieces of several memory chips that have rough edges and are slightly discolored from arcing.

Photo of a letter to the editor.

Saved by Stoppard

Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of _Arcadia_ by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of _Arcadia_, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival.

Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

animation of a sine wave like plot in 3d polar coordinates. And yes, it's basically a hat with a crown and a brim

bacon lettuce tomato sandwich on plate

A orange and white house cat is covered in a black and floral blanket in a living room. Only his upside down head is visible.

headline that reads “fire breaks out at white earth nation’s cannabis operation”

Photograph of a young man wearing a black t-shirt. It is night. He is under an indirect light source.

editorial cartoon from The Dude magazine. An illustration shows a crowd of KKK members in white robes, with a cross burning on the hill behind them. There are two figures in the foreground, and one is saying, "Just what was the name of your fraternity again?"

Left: Liquor store aisle with broken bottles and spilled liquid on the floor. Right: Raccoon lying on tiled bathroom floor near a white toilet and black trash can against beige walls.

CDN media

Anyone can shoplift is written in front of a picture of people walking around in a mall

vintage four panel comic advertising "Dr. McKensie's Dead Shot Worm Candy"

Sign in a park that reads "Dude Chilling Park"

An old and traditional tofu shop in Taito ward, Tokyo. The sign was destroyed in a typhoon several years ago, but the shop and its elderly owner still keep going

Retro print ad features a woman in an apron holding a turkey hooker tool. Text reads, "It's easy with the Turkey Hooker," priced at $5.95.

Painting of a woman holding the bridge of her nose with the speech bubble saying "Oh for fucks sake just die already"

A gleeful young boy in a swing.

A strange, heavily industrial building stands against a yellow sky. The building is tall—think of two differently-sized file cabinets stacked on each other—and looks more like a machine part or piece of equipment than a dwelling. It is a drab dark gray with a brownish tinge that suggests weathered concrete. The sides have numerous odd crevices, pipes, and striations, with a red triangle that suggests a hazard symbol painted on the right side. It has a few small windows that reveal a blue interior, as well as glowing white LED-esque lights embedded in the side. On the roof are a few antennas and a radio dish. Out front is a small mailbox. The grass around the building is tinged red from the sun. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

History of Rock Paper Scissors games

Just rock – All ties (before 3000 BCE)

Invention of scissor – Rock advantage (3000 BCE to 179 BCE)

Invention of paper – Balanced (After 179 BCE)

Aerial view of downtown Philadelphia