1. Kate McKean on the homemade Beatles tape her late father left behind, and how that playlist is now inviolate in her mind.

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  2. Jilly Gagnon brings us up to speed on the noted Victorian pornographic magazine "The Pearl."

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  3. This poetry cycle, taken from a website about field mice, explains the plot of the 1986 film "Aliens."

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  4. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  5. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup!

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  6. Caroline O'Donoghue, on the kind of superhero she would be. There would be a valiant dog involved.

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  7. Zapp Brannigan doesn't pretend to understand Brannigan's Law. He just enforces it.

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  8. Don't be so quick to assume these aren't Martian bonfires.

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  9. Sara Lautman has a cartoon about a surprising sort of bottomless pit.

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  10. Ruth Scobie discusses the 1796 novel "Joan!!!" in all of its tempestuous glory.

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  11. Gabriella Paiella looks at the cartoons who have graced the packages of your favourite foods, and how these company mascots have changed over time.

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  12. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  13. Katja Jylkka on the delightfully trashy novels of Laura Jean Libbey, who wrote about working girls and the men who tried to ruin them.

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  14. Elizabeth Weinberg is fed up with a certain strain of male narrator who is infecting current fiction.

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