block Payment software company Square changed its name to 'Block' this month. Now H&R Block is suing them. Annie Rauwerda

twitter Twitter takes aim at trolls—and promises more Glenn Fleishman

animals Baby barn owls rescued from a dock loft before first flight Popkin

nostalgia In 1996, Orbitz turned a soda bottle into a lava lamp Popkin

design This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture Popkin

health Psyllium husk is not nature's Ozempic, but it is a pretty good source of fiber Jason Weisberger

DHS ICE killed a Houston father, then called him the aggressor Jason Weisberger

youtube Max Fosh entered a nine-year-old into a roast battle Grant St. Clair

movies Dune: Part 3 drops trailer full of fun in the sun Grant St. Clair

Werwulf is coming just in time for Christmas! Séamus Bellamy

Games We might be getting that New Vegas followup, but not in the way anyone expected Grant St. Clair

Games Making Fallout 76 bearable by playing it inside Fallout 4 Grant St. Clair

Games Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966 Ellsworth Toohey

History Castro's supercow got a state obituary and a marble statue Ellsworth Toohey

History Soldier who was shot in eight places said he "enjoyed the war" Ellsworth Toohey

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Food This German cheese is ripened by live mites, which you then eat Ellsworth Toohey

History A plane vanished in 1947 after sending "stendec" in Morse Code Ellsworth Toohey

Technology In 1990, engineers wrote an internet standard for carrier pigeons Ellsworth Toohey