phones The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone that stood 12 miles from the nearest paved road in California's Mojave National Preserve Popkin

deserts The terrible power of plastic is that it quickly becomes useless but never goes away Reanna Alder

deserts When tumbleweed attacks Rob Beschizza

books She Who Knows, a new trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor Elías Villoro

video games Rejoice, for the first ever First-Person Jesus video game is finally available Thom Dunn

endangered species Australia has the worst mammal extinction record in the world. Here's how it is protecting endangered species Jennifer Sandlin

Food Papa John's Pizza Bowls pose the important question "what is food?" Elías Villoro

UFOs Taking a soundbath in an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine designed by extraterrestrials David Pescovitz

Survival tips Lt. Smith and the booby bird — a true tale of survival Mark Frauenfelder

lizards Lizards have been playing a big game of rock paper scissors for millions of years Annie Rauwerda

scorpions Deadly scorpions invade homes, sending over 500 people to the hospital in Egypt Carla Sinclair

dune These facts about dunes will blow you away Annie Rauwerda

fire fire fire Southern California's Santa Ana winds threaten even more fire Jason Weisberger

twitter Use this site to make funny Twitter bots, ready in minutes! Annie Rauwerda

scams How dollar stores score the highest profit margins Thom Dunn

australia Watch: Japanese tourist guide to Australia Mark Frauenfelder

just deserts The Capital bares similarities and excepts it's kneads Kevin Reome

animals Analyzing the evolutionary biology of STAR WARS megafauna Thom Dunn

Weird Meet the "werewolf mouse" who hunts scorpions and deadly centipedes and howls at the moon Gareth Branwyn

world music Travel Tunes: Tinariwen—Kel Tinawen Séamus Bellamy