art Baroque punk papercraft bust by Asya and Dmitry Kozins Andrea James

classical music A neo-Baroque fugue based on Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Rusty Blazenhoff

History Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts Rob Beschizza

History The caganer: Catalonia's defecating nativity figure Ellsworth Toohey

literature Tennessee Williams published his first story in Weird Tales at age 16 Ellsworth Toohey

art Fascinating blog covers the provenance of a painting stolen by the Nazis Natalie Dressed

Science Leopard seals woo mates with nursery rhymes Gail Sherman

Technology Could advanced AI turn us into eyelash mites? Ellsworth Toohey

music Haunted folk music just in time for Halloween Natalie Dressed

boomer solutions Beach town in Finland had a rowdy youth problem — until it blasted classical music Carla Sinclair

video games Beating Baldur's Gate 3 as a cat Grant St. Clair

True Detective Here's how the grotesque "corpsicle" from True Detective: Night Country was created Jennifer Sandlin

audiobooks Get the audiobook for Cory Doctorow's "The Bezzle," read by Wil Wheaton Rob Beschizza

art This mosaic art looks good enough to eat Jennifer Sandlin

shoes The Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' but on a church pipe organ Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Could capitalistic ambition be driven by a feline-borne parasite? Grant St. Clair

art New book about the album cover art of Sun Ra's Saturn label Mark Frauenfelder

pop music The Osmond Brothers were once a great baroque psychedelic folk-pop band Mark Frauenfelder

1980s Strawberry Switchblade is one of my favorite 1980s bands Popkin