texas A Texas brewery made a purple, glittery ale with Peeps Rusty Blazenhoff

travel Take a trip to "The White Squirrel Capital of the World" Jennifer Sandlin

ghosts Oldest-known drawing of a ghost found on ancient Babylonian tablet Thom Dunn

metal covers Leo Moracchioli delivers The Bee Gee's 'Night Fever' Jason Weisberger

Japanese culture Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Mark Frauenfelder

Cadbury creme egg Goose Island's new Cadbury Egg flavored beer Kevin Reome

parks Late night stumble into Yellowstone's Old Faithful results in trip to burn ward Jason Weisberger

redhats Mob of young MAGA hat wearers surrounds Native American elder and mock him [UPDATED WITH NEW VIDEO] Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

halloween The 2017 Halloween Candy Hierarchy: Definitely Not Fake News David Ng and Ben Cohen

halloween The Candy Hierarchy for 2016: Halloween's best and worst treats David Ng and Ben Cohen

Delightful Creatures America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake Ted Levin

picks Budweiser renames its beer "America" Mark Frauenfelder

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

offworld Watch: The Saudi prince who's challenging video game stereotypes Leigh Alexander

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing