internet explorers club | wait, what?

Lots of headlines recently have made me take a step back and ensure I'm not reading The Onion. Here are a few of them...

Please don't try this at home: a bunch of people that want to stay "organic" are fishing in the East River and then eating that fish, despite the fact that there are about 100 signs telling them not to

Fortunately, they haven't fished out any skeletons like from the bottom of the Colorado River (it's ok, they're fake). Speaking of skeletons, VICE did an interview with the illustrator of all the Goosebumps covers, and Russian scientists have been experimenting with embalming processes on Lenin's corpse, to retain the "feel and flexibility" of his body. Yikes.

Apparently there is a maple syrup rebellion going on in Quebec—and by rebellion, I literally mean people are sneaking around the maple syrup cabal (aka the Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec), shipping barrels of syrup by night, authorities are raiding sugar shacks!

Well worth a read, and actually the diagrams about how maple syrup is collected in Our Modern Age are pretty cool.

Scientists have developed a chicken embryo with the beak of a dinosaur, proving we learned literally nothing from Jurassic Park.

There is just so much to parse here, but actually the description of the memorial sounds amazing?

Etcetera: Scrolls blacked by Vesuvius are now readable!

Until next time!