children's literature Why A.A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin ended up hating Winnie the Pooh, and stopped speaking with each other Mark Frauenfelder

Science Doolysaurus is a new dinosaur species and it is as cute as it sounds (video) Gail Sherman

gadgets Kohler toilet camera ready to observe your poop (and train AI) Rob Beschizza

art Plewds and hites: A fake (or fake-ish) nomenclature of comics in The Lexicon of Comicana Ruben Bolling

Science Who mortally wounded this man with a quartz projectile 12,000 years ago? Nobody knows. Rob Beschizza

books A new book collects the very first Donald Duck work of comic book legend Carl Barks Ruben Bolling

Science Is 3I/ATLAS, the latest interstellar object, an alien spaceship? Rob Beschizza

Gimme states: The proud hypocrites taking billions in federal dollars while opposing aid Ellsworth Toohey

Science Scientists decode the universal language pattern in 40,000 stories Ellsworth Toohey

Games How every fictional character connects to Street Fighter's Ryu Grant St. Clair

archaeology This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record" Ellsworth Toohey

music Steely Dan's Donald Fagen curses out the makers of a new documentary on Yacht Rock Ruben Bolling

language Brain Rot is Oxford's word of the year Rob Beschizza

art Why Richard Scarry chose animals over humans in his revolutionary children's books Mark Frauenfelder

movies Site collects "Title Drops"—when someone says the name of the film, in the film Rob Beschizza

Technology Enjoy this high-resolution scan of postmortem human brain Rob Beschizza

books Band People: the artistry and economics of supporting musicians Thom Dunn

fantasy Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition Gareth Branwyn

Maya DNA reveals mystery of Maya human sacrifice Allan Rose Hill

History How Ibram X. Kendi's STAMPED became a stunning graphic novel history of racism Thom Dunn