coronavirus An eerily beautiful drone video of shutdown San Francisco David Pescovitz

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Technology Meet the most cringe-worthy status symbol of 2025: an $880,000 champagne holder for SDE billionaires Ellsworth Toohey

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chicken "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, performed by chickens Thom Dunn

australia Adorable baby wombats grow up and successfully released into the wild Jennifer Sandlin

Meh My solitary adventures in the abyss of space with the Calphalon Cookware Set Boing Boing

Comic Books Review: "Boys Weekend" is like a queer "Cabin in the Woods" for the CryptoBro era Thom Dunn

NASA NASA official takes oath of office with hand on Carl Sagan book David Pescovitz

Disney Holy Chicken Ship! The full-length "Captain EO" is more brilliant than you can possibly remember Jason Weisberger

Space William Shatner: Actually, going to space was a huge bummer David Pescovitz

books In "The Other Shore", Thích Nhất Hạnh rewrote the patriarch's interpretation of the Heart Sutra A.E. Gómez

sociopathic cults One-fifth of Americans believe every school shooting is a fake event filled with "crisis actors" Jennifer Sandlin

art These sculptures almost disappear when viewed head-on Andrea James

Trump's America The GOP's Official 2020 platform is literally just a loyalty pledge to Trump Thom Dunn

coronavirus Baseball stadium invites dancing robots to mask eerie emptiness during game Carla Sinclair

police brutality A powerful portrait series of Black Americans killed by police that uses time as a visual medium Thom Dunn

music Radiohead to stream concerts for shut-ins Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

retro encabulators Even experts can be tricked by meaningless babble uttered by a slick BS artist Mark Frauenfelder