amateur sleuths Attention egg throwers: The Chicago Egg Hunters are coming to find you Popkin

music Q Lazzarus, singer of Goodbye Horses, dead at 61 Rob Beschizza

footballs "Steps will be taken" to ensure fake high school's fake football teams never appear on ESPN again Jason Weisberger

crime French software engineer may have cracked the Zodiac killer's code David Pescovitz

mysteries The mysterious case of the dead hiker whose body can't be identified by anyone Thom Dunn

white supremacists Twitter users hunt down Seattle Nazi and knock him out Mark Frauenfelder

books The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women's health advice Cory Doctorow

books Lauren Beukes's Broken Monsters Cory Doctorow