scotus Targeting vulnerable GOP Senator: don't confirm Kavanaugh or we'll give tons of money to your opponent Cory Doctorow

star wars Luke Skywalker's severed hand and lightsaber prop sold for $3.75M Rob Beschizza

Yo quiero CNN writes the Taco Bell diarrhea headline America needed Jason Weisberger

video games A YouTuber gave Skyrim a full high-speed rail network Grant St. Clair

fifa Grandpa Pudding Brains admits he meddled in a World Cup call he didn't understand Jason Weisberger

Science This spider flings ants 30 centimeters into its trap Ellsworth Toohey

animals Tortoise rearranges furniture like a tiny interior designer Popkin

unfortunate spawn points Now space has been corrupted by capitalism, there's only one place left to escape to: Null Island Rob Beschizza

History Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found. Ellsworth Toohey

professtional sports The cheating wasn't in the rider. It was in the bike Jason Weisberger

History For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn Ellsworth Toohey

History An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist Ellsworth Toohey

History The ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine Ellsworth Toohey

robots Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest? Gail Sherman

comedy Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration Grant St. Clair

youtube Why are car keys always kept in the visor in movies? Grant St. Clair

garden Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor Jason Weisberger

AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

animation X-Men '97 gets season two trailer and premiere date Gail Sherman