1963 1963 dinner menu features a groping theme Mark Frauenfelder

art What Burning Man looked like in 1963, as imagined by AI Rusty Blazenhoff

Science For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms Ellsworth Toohey

movies Sony saves the Cinerama Dome from becoming condos or sadness Jason Weisberger

books The Newest Complete Carl Barks Library volume has Donald Duck lost beneath the sea Ruben Bolling

music Anthony Hopkins releases first album at 88 Rob Beschizza

History Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found. Ellsworth Toohey

cars Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911 Ellsworth Toohey

Comics MAD hits 600 issues; still, thankfully, hilariously juvenile Ruben Bolling

A tanker of molten sulphur vanished with 39 crew in 1963 Ellsworth Toohey

History The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom Ellsworth Toohey

wheels on the bus Sticky tires are dirtier than they look Jason Weisberger

movies Critics like being in the Backrooms Rob Beschizza

Science Albert Hofmann's first LSD trip, 83 years ago today Ellsworth Toohey

Science The doctor who proved handwashing saves lives was locked in an asylum for it Ellsworth Toohey

Civil War soldiers called the first instant coffee "axle grease" Ellsworth Toohey

Reese's heir accuses Hershey of cutting corners Jason Weisberger

The world's unluckiest Ferrari has now crashed twice in the same city Ellsworth Toohey

Science The bacteria-in-a-bottle thought experiment that explains why we're bad at seeing disaster coming Ellsworth Toohey

fascism Trump back to blaming the victim, business as usual for ICE Jason Weisberger