classical music How Houston Symphony's percussionist built the 22-pound hammer that delivers Mahler's "blows of fate" in Symphony No. 6 Ellsworth Toohey

movies Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 Séamus Bellamy

music This site turns LA Metro trains into ambient music Popkin

movies Howl you know if Werwulf is worth seeing if you don't watch this trailer? Rob Beschizza

folklore The Bunny Man was a real hatchet-wielder in 1970 Virginia — but the internet turned him into something else entirely Ellsworth Toohey

The Mouth of Moron returns to explain that pond scum is democracy Jason Weisberger

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

internet nostalgia The UK has formally declared Badger Badger Badger worthy of preservation Jason Weisberger

nostalgia Listen to almost 50 years of startup sounds Gail Sherman

Science Study finds infrasound the likely horror in hauntings Rob Beschizza

Games Mac OS X ported to the Nintendo Wii Rob Beschizza

books Your public library can get you almost any book on earth for $5 or less Ellsworth Toohey

music He made videos of himself singing Beach Boys songs – and they were so good the Beach Boys brought him into the band Ruben Bolling

bad idea Fox News host demands oil tankers run the Strait of Hormuz Jason Weisberger

PETSAFE Bipartisan PETSAFE Act would fund animal evacuations during disasters Jason Weisberger

politics Obama casually said aliens are real on a podcast, then had to post an Instagram correction Ellsworth Toohey

Comics Matt Kindt's paranoid psychic-espionage comic book series "Mind MGMT" returns this June Gareth Branwyn

politics Judge rules Luigi Mangione will not receive death penalty if convicted Rob Beschizza

bad idea Trump takes direction from Fox morning show Jason Weisberger