Melibe Viridis, a gelatinous glob related to snails and slugs from the nudibranch family, is the focus of this episode of "Animal of the Week" from Ben G Thomas, aired… Read the rest of the article: Melibe viridis is a gelatinous hungry nudibranch

Erin Reed is a researcher, mother, content creator, activist, and writer. As a trans woman who uses she/her pronouns, Reed works "to achieve gender justice for queer and marginalized people… Read the rest of the article: Trans rights map of USA shows where the law is headed

Though I see them everywhere, I have only been to Dutch Bros. twice in my life – for myself. I ordered a plain coffee. Boo. I have been to DB… Read the rest of the article: What would Dutch Bros. be like in a parallel universe?

The year 2022 marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of PEN America, an organization that "stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in… Read the rest of the article: Report on banned books in scools for 2022

For over three decades, beginning in July of 1992, Prison Radio, an independent production studio, has taken on the prison industrial complex with a simple, direct, and potent mission: "include… Read the rest of the article: 30 years of Prison Radio—and new updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case

Start the New Year with Marcel, the "partial shell" with shoes and a face, in their 2022 documentary story-telling hybrid film debut, the stop-motion comedy-adventure-docu-drama Marcel the Shell with Shoes… Read the rest of the article: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a stop-motion, comedy-adventure docu-drama

"I was afraid they would humiliate me, me a laughing stock. Because the whole thing is a joke. I go around seeking approval from people who despise me. I act… Read the rest of the article: This is not a review of "BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths"

Starling murmurings have always fascinated me. Their sheer beauty and the seeming impossibility of such elegant and synchronized movements, swooping and swirling, turning and twisting where each bird moves with… Read the rest of the article: Octavio Aburto at the intersection of science, art, and conservation

10,000 Maniacs' fifth studio album, Our Time in Eden, was released in 1992. Music can be a time-traveling vessel of connection and consummation. As another Gregorian New Year begins, and… Read the rest of the article: 10,000 Maniacs entertain Jay Leno in 1992

War is probably one of the last things one wants to think about as a new year begins. As 2023 marks the 20th year of the second invasion of Iraq… Read the rest of the article: Alex Lubin's book, "Never-Ending War on Terror", explains it

Eric Cartman discovers tolerance in this short clip from the future-invoking South Park. The gang is sent to the Museum of Tolerance as punishment for being insensitive to their new… Read the rest of the article: 20 years ago, South Park visited the Museum of Tolerance

Coming across unanticipated music in a skateboard video is a small and necessary joy. While watching ANTIHERO's "Fantastic Voyage" full-length video, at minute 7:48, a familiar acoustic melody, a slow… Read the rest of the article: 1974 anti-fascist version of "Space Oddity" sung in Spanish by Hermanos Calatrava

In 2019, Dryer Vent Wizard in Farmington Hills, Michigan, set a Guinness World Record for the most lint collected, a large flammable pile weighing 690 pounds. "Since April, Dryer Vent… Read the rest of the article: Giant heap of lint burned to show just how flammable the stuff i

While the Guinness Book of World Records is expanding its entries concerning lint accumulation at laundromats, the Belly-Button Lint Survey, which won the 2002 Ig Award for projects that "cannot… Read the rest of the article: Navel lint conclusively explained

Getting sprayed by the ocean while drinking Ocean Spray Cranberry is as literal a reference as you might get to product. Reproducing Nathan Apodaca's viral video from 2020, of him… Read the rest of the article: Surfer recreates Nathan Apodaca's viral Ocean Spray skateboard video—and gets sprayed by the ocean

The choice about technological progress is not random and can be as intentional as a well-placed ping-pong spin shot. Ping-pong robots have come a long way in the last eight… Read the rest of the article: Ping Pong robot Forpheus is a formidable foe

As wickedly dangerous weather smothers and destroys the infrastructure of a large swath of the US, it might be worth revisiting the stop-motion short film about Rudolph's red nose and… Read the rest of the article: Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer's legacy

In the United States, the criminal punishment system responds to addiction as a criminal issue, not a health issue. As a result, people with addictions often find themselves in jail… Read the rest of the article: Prisons addicted to using drugs to control prisoners

The Counter Intelligence Programs of the FBI, or COINTELPRO for short, infiltrated, spread rumors about, and assassinated members of political movements in the United States from the 1940s until the… Read the rest of the article: Bastards of the Party: a ­documentary about why gangs emerged in L.A.

In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, announced the Green New Deal as a significant policy issue. As reported in the… Read the rest of the article: The Red Deal calls for climate solutions beyond the scope of state action