Rolling through the vineyards of Arizona with art, skateboarders and Cousin Id? Chateau Tumbleweed, or "The Weed", as proclaimed on T-shirts in their online store, was founded in 2011 in… Read the rest of the article: Recommended: Tumbleweed Wine

City planners love skateboarders and skateboarding—in Malmo, at least, "A Swedish skate paradise," according to a 2016 Huck article. The Malmo skate community and local educators founded the skateboarding high… Read the rest of the article: For skaters, will Tempe, Arizona be the American Malmo?

The new James Webb Space Telescope has shown all of us the most amazing, detailed, and awe-inspiring images from the infinitely expanding universes, a time-traveling telescope that has rearranged assumptions… Read the rest of the article: The Moon in 174 Megapixels: Clear enough to see all the animal kingdom, not just the proverbial rabbit

When the Indus river system flooded in 2010, devastating countless villages and agricultural land across roughly one-fifth of Pakistan's land area, it was an extraordinary and terrible catastrophe. Twelve years… Read the rest of the article: Ordinary heroes rescue people from drowning in torrential river floods in Pakistan

Are you searching for a cotton blend orange-and-yellow cow-print hoodie? What about cow-patterned Peepy? Or maybe a purple Mega Peepy? What about a star-shaped plush Sucklet? Or a Yellow Clam… Read the rest of the article: Adorable chimera plushies and shirts almost defy comprehension

Scholars have long emphasized the relationships between the kidnapping, transportation, and enslavement of indigenous peoples from Africa and the rise of global capitalism, demonstrating the ongoing impacts of an enslaved… Read the rest of the article: Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas

In the comic book, Laguardia, by "a writer of strange things" Nnedi Okorafor, the airport by the same name—now an intergalactic way-station that is STILL under construction—is the backdrop for… Read the rest of the article: "Laguardia," by Nnedi Okorafor, is a comic book set in the context of not-so-futuristic conservative fascist forces

First Amazon, then Starbucks and Trader Joe's, and now Chipotle workers have organized a union. Workers at Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan voted to be represented by the Teamsters Union, and… Read the rest of the article: Starbucks, Trader Joe's, and Chipotle unionization efforts face resistance

From September 8-11, 2022, in Seattle, Washington, Skate Like a Girl will host Wheels of Fortune (WOF). First organized in 2009, Wheels of Fortune 11 "is the longest running global… Read the rest of the article: Skate like a Girl's Wheel of Fortune returns to Seattle next month

Why is the posterior hippocampus larger than normal in London taxi drivers? According to Dr. Eleanor Maquire, Ph.D., professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University College London (UCL), the rigorous… Read the rest of the article: Why is the posterior hippocampus larger than normal in London taxi drivers?

How does a cat know?  Not simply how does a cat think, but how does it know what it knows? From genetics? Experience? In other words, what is a feline… Read the rest of the article: Get inside the mind of a cat with the game "Stray"

Have you ever been in a conversation, and someone (or you yourself) mentions a person, place, event, or another phenomenon; and the other person (or you) pretends to know about… Read the rest of the article: Confess your ignorance, honor doubt, and embrace uncertainty

I remember buying my first Lhasa de Sela CD at Austin, Texas' famed Waterloo records in the late 1990s. Composed in Spanish, La Llorona (1997) contained 11 songs of soul… Read the rest of the article: "Why Lhasa de Sela Matters" is an intimate portrait of the creativity that resulted from the collision of a hopeful and hopeless romantic

True story: Some two decades ago, I was at a party, and my friend said to me as they pointed toward the door, "wow, look at that mullet!" I turned,… Read the rest of the article: Not just a fish: meet the Mullet Champions of 2022!

What happens when people disappear from a place? What happens in that building, on that seabed, in that deserted cityscape? To find out, check out the Twitter handle Abandoned Places.… Read the rest of the article: Recommended Twitter follow: Abandoned Places

"I prayed, and said: 'Lord, I've got to get this hatred off my heart. It's a miserable feeling. You can't function right. So I forgave." — Wilson, recounting his experience… Read the rest of the article: The Visiting Room Project: Stories from Angola Prison of surviving life without parole 

If you are new to caring for an animal whose eyesight is changing, today is a perfect day to get on all fours and see what life looks like from… Read the rest of the article: Today is International Blind Dog Day

What washes up on beaches always tells a story — from seaweed and algae to proverbial messages in bottles. But what happens when the building blocks of a plastic message-carrying… Read the rest of the article: Citizen scientists take on the scourge of the nurdle