crime In Paraguay, the "heist of the century" is blamed on a notorious Brazilian prison-gang Cory Doctorow

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Massive lunar canyons formed within minutes, most likely due to asteroid strike Rob Beschizza

medicine UPDATED: If your surgery runs long, Anthem will stop paying for the anesthesia Allan Rose Hill

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fizzy air bubble curtain Army Corps of Engineers electrifies Illinois lock to keep Asian Carp out of Lake Michigan Andrew Yi

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kidnappings Two men in the middle of kidnapping a Louisiana woman drown on the job Carla Sinclair

misinformation Misogynists wrongly blame woman sailor for ship stuck in Suez Canal Séamus Bellamy

mistakes Gigantic container ship blocks Suez Canal, creating an enormous queue Rob Beschizza

world records Why Guinness tastes better in Ireland Thom Dunn

tabloids His Royal High-ness Prince Harry's Pot Farm, and stars with only months to live, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History How Mexican labor unions tried to rescue Freud from the Nazis Cory Doctorow

health Dentistry's evidentiary vacuum allows profiteering butchers to raid our mouths for millions Cory Doctorow

puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger

fake news Queen collapses, Stacy Peterson's body found, Jennifer Aniston's post-divorce hook-ups, and other news that never happened, in this week's fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

Coffee Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to squirt coffee up your asshole using this $135 glass jar Cory Doctorow

happy mutants In 1956, Hugh Hefner gave MAD's founding editor an unlimited budget for a new satire magazine called "TRUMP" Cory Doctorow