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Call them victims of the dire and pre-emptive business of declaring species extinct in this day and age, but the animals featured in BuzzFeed’s listicle of 14 Extinct Animals That Were Rediscovered have basically come back from beyond the grave. Perhaps the most extreme case of this is the Coelacanth (pictured below), a semi-amphibeous fish [...]

When it comes to compelling stories about the living dead, it turns out that science is often stranger than science fiction. We don’t have to wait for the apocalyptic cannibalizing of our race by our dead, zombies already walk amongst us – they’re just really, really small. So small in fact that you might step [...]

When Listicles was first conceived, its was to be a custom-printed ‘zine made with hand-set type and a selection of hand-made fonts assembled in a print shop, printed on linen paper, bound with recycled tire treads and distributed by trained cat messengers.
Obviously, we’ve had to cut back on many of those ambitions, but every so [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed the conspicuously crowded skies since March 28, we’re at the mid-point of National Kite Month (which lasts through May 3). While you grapple futilely to contain your excitement at this news, may we suggest that before you join the thronging windward crowds of fair-weather flight fanatics you seek inspiration from [...]

Informally, this week is Art Fair Week in New York, with a half-dozen large-scale festivals providing showrooms for galleries from all over the world to display their artists’ work. One of the newer fairs in this year’s mix is Fountain New York, which features Marcel Duchamp’s iconic urinal scultpure as its logo. Contemplating their snazzy [...]

We here at Listicles, ever promoting, encouraging and covering expansion in the list community, are big fans of list-form “likes” sites such as Stuff White People Like, or Stuff Hipsters Don’t Like. Yesterday we learned of a much shorter “like” site with a less sociological and more environmental outlook: Things Bears Love. Despite linking to [...]