picks Baking Skullzones, skull-shaped calzones, for Halloween or any time Xeni Jardin

earthquake Cal Berkeley put a crooked line on its new football field, to show it sits on the Hayward Fault Rusty Blazenhoff

MAGA clowns Silly Rudy Giuliani goofs again with technical glitches galore (video) Carla Sinclair

Science Professor attempting to live underwater for 100 days and emerge "super-human" David Pescovitz

psychology The psychology behind our perverse impulses to do bad Rusty Blazenhoff

music "Frog on the Floor" is the evolutionary pinnacle of SoCal Pop-Rock Thom Dunn

animation A 1936 animated gem to usher in spring Rusty Blazenhoff

star wars Star Wars Jedi: Survivor debuts story trailer Grant St. Clair

mar-a-lago dinner guests Right-wing's Nick Fuentes says "women want to be raped" (video) Carla Sinclair

media NY Times suffers from dementia, forgetting its own role in the Iraq War debacle Mark Frauenfelder

crimes Woman on speakerphone in Uber called in bomb threat to Walmart to prevent boyfriend's shoplifting arrest David Pescovitz

christian nationalism Gov. Huckabee Sanders allows forced birth monument to stand on Arkansas' Capitol grounds Carla Sinclair

motorcycles Motorcycle hooligans disrupt traffic on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge Jason Weisberger

california California's plan to make insulin affordable could help end prescription price gouging everywhere Jason Weisberger

milquetoast pence Mike Pence listens to Trump audio justifying "Hang Mike Pence!" chanters, but still can't find his spine (video) Carla Sinclair

Science Mice genetically engineered to grow tiny deer antlers David Pescovitz

twitter Musk gloats over Twitter's new poop emoji auto-responder Jason Weisberger

donald trump GOP Rep Claudia Tenney says Trump should avoid appearing in court, and the criminal case will "blow over" Mark Frauenfelder

trump Steel barricades outside Manhattan Criminal Court spark speculation Mark Frauenfelder

movies John Boyega's resentment towards Star Wars is beginning to soften Devin Nealy