marvel comics Zone out with 10 hours of ambient footage from Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum Thom Dunn

linguistics This tiny North Carolina island is last place in America where people talk like actual pirates (video) Ellsworth Toohey

books How the Black psychedelic revolution can heal and liberate Allan Rose Hill

crime Rationalist death cult implicated in deadly shoot-out with border guards and other killings Rob Beschizza

science fiction Dyson Trees could make a home for humans—and other things Rob Beschizza

Mutant fruit flies created by radiation, would take over Earth within months Ellsworth Toohey

taliban Taliban fires 281 officers because they can't or won't grow beards Rob Beschizza

Weird Kentucky museum displays piece of meat that fell from sky during freaky meat shower Allan Rose Hill

gay Documentary highlights the men that Abraham Lincoln slept with Thom Dunn

doomsdays Students tackle grim future scenarios in "Are We Doomed?" class Yoy Luadha

paleontology Famed reptile fossil is actually rocks, paint, and random bones David Pescovitz

cover songs Enjoy these excellent covers of Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," on its 26th anniversary Jennifer Sandlin

Atlas Obscura's list of alluring geometrical houses Popkin

police Four L.A. Sheriff's deputies killing themselves hours apart just a coincidence, says department Rob Beschizza

Happy Mutants Coast to Coast AM has uploaded 422 episodes of Art Bell Jennifer Sandlin

argentina Adorable rare 'pink fairy' armadillo spotted in the wild Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Christopher Nolan "tricked" studio into casting Cillian Murphy in Batman Begins Devin Nealy

History What is American Exceptionalism, anyway? Elías Villoro

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

artificial intelligence SHIFT exhibit presents artistic perspectives on artificial intelligence Jennifer Sandlin