Weird Everything's bigger in Australia Grant St. Clair

grift ICE buys the cages, private prison company keeps the keys Jason Weisberger

movies Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 Séamus Bellamy

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Games The age of physical games begins to come to a close as PlayStation discontinues discs Grant St. Clair

music No AI for Al. "Weird Al" Yankovic yanks AI commercial Ruben Bolling

nostalgia Rare footage shows how rough Six Flags' wooden Rattler coaster was Popkin

News Nashville's control tower has 27 controllers; the FAA wants 52 Ellsworth Toohey

Science A synthetic cell grew, copied its DNA, and split in two Ellsworth Toohey

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politics County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity Rob Beschizza

Dearly departed Grandpa Pudding Brains describes recent chat with President Theodore Roosevelt, who died before he was born Jason Weisberger

Free fruit Farmer gives away 125,000 pounds of nectarines rather than let Big Ag rot them Jason Weisberger

holidays This poop dog firework puts a funny twist on the classic black snake Popkin

fashion "Maybe it will happen today" tee shirts Rob Beschizza

climate change Floodmap shows the world without ice Rob Beschizza

health A tick virus that needs only 15 minutes to infect you hit a record 76 US cases Ellsworth Toohey