san francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit unveils cool anime mascots to woo youth riders Rusty Blazenhoff

punk Hundreds pack a BART train car for a rowdy punk show Rusty Blazenhoff

bart What would you do with a decommissioned BART train car? Rusty Blazenhoff

Oakland Unreal footage of a guy falling on subway tracks and getting saved in the nick of time Rusty Blazenhoff

design BART map inspires poster of The Fillmore's upcoming shows Rusty Blazenhoff

History In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high Ellsworth Toohey

Technology A Shenzhen hotel plans to use a fully robotic staff Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Aged & Ore's bottle kit packs TSA-compliant cocktails for travel Séamus Bellamy

politics Mississippi District Attorney's "depraved" AI slop posts a reminder that "everyone is 12 now" Rob Beschizza

flags Flagdoku tests your knowledge of flags Rob Beschizza

History Sid Caesar built the writers' room that taught Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen how to be funny Ellsworth Toohey

literature Could a Nabokov novel have been the 'father of all hypertext demos'? Ellsworth Toohey

Science Scientists built a machine to solve what AI can't Ellsworth Toohey

Science The 1960 blob that gave all mystery blobs their name Ellsworth Toohey

politics How 1925 press dismissed the Klan at peak power Ellsworth Toohey

canada Canadian doctors won't treat American trans patients — and here's why Séamus Bellamy

animation This 1980 Czech animation is circles all the way down Popkin