prisons Florida poet on death row died ahead of schedule from a fentanyl overdose… somehow David Pescovitz

Japan Pop-up restaurant serves last meals of death row inmates Rusty Blazenhoff

capital punishment Most common last words spoken by death row inmates Mark Frauenfelder

Weird What does Orc City have to do with Metal Gear Solid? Grant St. Clair

How short words made old tales fresh Ellsworth Toohey

deaths New Green Screen of Death aligns crashes with Windows 11 design principles Rob Beschizza

travel Travel: Bloodless Bullfights in La Gloria, Texas Séamus Bellamy

Space "Sally" is an inspiring, sad, infuriating tribute to an astronaut and reluctant celebrity Gail Sherman

Science Dispelling RFK, Jr.'s disinformation, crowd-sourced database includes hundreds of randomized controlled trials of vaccines Jennifer Sandlin

travel Bolivia's Death Road: why this deadly mountain pass attracts 25,000 tourists a year (video) Popkin

politics RFK Jr replaces entire vaccine advisory board with controversial figures Jennifer Sandlin

Games New Elden Ring spinoff strips away what made the original special Grant St. Clair

Weird This man died in 1902 and then sat in a chair for three months, looking more alive than you do right now Popkin

Incredible video from Myanmar earthquake shows the ground rupture and shift Gail Sherman

kentucky "I don't want to die": Semi dangles 100 feet over river in real-life action movie rescue (video) Jason Weisberger

crime Survivor of deadly beef wellington lunch tells his tale Rob Beschizza

education The only technique to learn something new James Altucher

Funny Set it and forget it: these digital monkeys will eventually write Hamlet, possibly after heat death of universe Popkin

health Scientists just added chicken to the ever-growing list of foods that will kill you Ellsworth Toohey

Russia returns captured Ukrainian journalist's mutilated body, keeps her brain and eyes Ellsworth Toohey