ghosts Oldest-known drawing of a ghost found on ancient Babylonian tablet Thom Dunn

History This 4,000-year-old recipe has had a long time to stew Séamus Bellamy

History Listen: a sexy hymn to Ishtar, in the original Babylonian Cory Doctorow

History These Medieval church ladies really let it all hang out Ellsworth Toohey

religion Babylonian tablets reveal kings installed royal doubles during eclipses, then executed them Ellsworth Toohey

Science AI tries to decipher rules of ancient board game Gail Sherman

bacteria The science of vinegar: what happens to bacteria under a microscope Popkin

drool-worthy sandwiches These delicious looking sandwiches can be found in NY Jennifer Sandlin

maga Ashley St. Clair: latest member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party who is surprised that leopards are eating her face Mark Frauenfelder

politics Woke mind virus infects right-wing satire site Grant St. Clair

science fiction Please Lord let "3 Body Problem" be good Yoy Luadha

Games Solutions and maps to classic text adventure games Rob Beschizza

Chaya Raichik "They're importing people who want to destroy America" says Libs of TikTok founder in revealing interview Jennifer Sandlin

vladimir putin New Age conspiracy theorist praises Putin and Tucker Carlson's charge against the Satanic Cabal Jennifer Sandlin

american history Speaker Mike Johnson is flying a Christian nationalist flag outside his office Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Check out the first trailer for the new Babylon 5 movie Thom Dunn

films Kenneth Anger, experimental filmmaker and occultist, RIP David Pescovitz

movies The 1954 Liz Taylor movie, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" entered the public domain 10 years early because the copyright notice had an error Mark Frauenfelder

movies Oscar-nominated director Damien Chazelle has a two-hour cut of Babylon on his iPhone Devin Nealy

Happy Holidays America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, reporting from the front lines of the War on Christman Mark Frauenfelder