books John Darnielle's new novel is a riveting metafictional meditation on true crime stories Thom Dunn
pranks This Florida man played one of the greatest pranks of all time: He fooled the town into thinking he was a giant bird monster Popkin
The incredible recurring culture loss of San Francisco San Francisco's 'loss of the culture that made the city so great' results in couple buying multimillion-dollar 'suburban' home Jason Weisberger
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
tragedies Arson attack on Kyoto animation studio leaves at least 33 dead, dozens injured Mark Frauenfelder
politics Trump's pick to head DHS immigration, Ken Cuccinelli, praised anti-Muslim extremist Brigitte Gabriel Xeni Jardin
health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow
tabloids Dying Angie, Divorce Bombshells, and a Julian Assange Sex Tape, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan