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

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

star trek Harlan Ellison auction includes the world's most (in)famous "Star Trek" photo Mark Frauenfelder

movies The trailer for Damien Chazelle's Babylon is mesmerizing Devin Nealy

vandalism Mysterious Georgia Guidestones were partially destroyed in a bombing Jennifer Sandlin

qanon shaman In prison interview, QAnon Shaman shares paranoid fantasies about the Deep State's "two-tiered slavery system" Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Royal scandals, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein's "murder" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

psychology Feels like a Tuesday: research explains why days "feel" certain ways Annie Rauwerda

tabloids Fauci and Royal Nazis in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

guns AR-15-worshipping Christian church opens new private compound in Texas Thom Dunn

babylon 5 Captain John J. Sheridan's thoughts on the election: "We have come home!" Ken Snider

mistakes Trump mistakes satirical news story for reality Rob Beschizza

Games This person has been running the same Dungeons & Dragons campaign for 38 years David Pescovitz

archeology Ancient Rome in five-minute animated fly-through Gareth Branwyn

cannabis Celebrate 4/20 by watching the weed exploitation classic Reefer Madness David Pescovitz