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

books Orwell predicted the AI slop novel in 1949 Ellsworth Toohey

decline The Strait of Hormuz won't be a problem after Grandpa Pudding Brains renames it Jason Weisberger

Free Software Foundation demands freedom from Anthropic, not money Ellsworth Toohey

art Heritage railway's new fox mascot was drawn by a furry artist and it works out great Grant St. Clair

politics Trump insists Lutnick "very innocent" after photo emerges of him on Epstein's island Rob Beschizza

The Simpsons Michael Stipe returns to The Simpsons with "Everybody Kirks" Jennifer Sandlin

Science The bacteria-in-a-bottle thought experiment that explains why we're bad at seeing disaster coming Ellsworth Toohey