art Brutalist cuckoo clocks Andrea James

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

Birds understand warning calls from other species Gail Sherman

movies Travel: Vienna's Third Man Museum Séamus Bellamy

mondo 2000 San Francisco, June 7: Celebrate the cyberculture with Mondo 2000's RU Sirius, Mark Pauline, Cintra Wilson, Rudy Rucker, Cindy Cohn, and phriendz David Pescovitz

podcasts Listen to this eerily immersive audio tour of a real-life Bates Motel Thom Dunn

tabloids A paranoid prince, proof of UFOs, and a panicked Trump in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History Interview with "Josh" from Pearl Jam's 1992 "Even Flow" video Elías Villoro

noise Study finds you can change your brain to hear better in chaotic, noisy environments Mark Frauenfelder

Funny Ingenious toothbrushing contraption that uses a pendulum clock helmet Popkin

clocks Watch 100 cuckoo clocks going off at once Popkin

footage Watch: Newly-hatched cuckoo murders unhatched rivals Jennifer Sandlin

Japan Happy Meat Day Andrew Yi

fish Bees are now legally fish in the state of California Thom Dunn

crime Two men "carried a dead man into a post office" in effort to claim his pension Thom Dunn

art The Cuckoo Clock is a captivating minature world by Vered Aharonovitch Popkin

amazon Amazon won't help Klein bottle seller after another company hijacks his product listing with a blackhead remover Mark Frauenfelder

apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder

gadgets Sticky note printer David Pescovitz