music Get in the mood with this commercial from the 90s "Pure Moods" music collection Thom Dunn

Science Retro-futuristic blimp provides connectivity from the stratosphere Gail Sherman

animals Purrents complaining that new feline tax could be a cat-astrophe Allan Rose Hill

adorable animals This tiny bush baby is absolutely enthralled by a locust! Jennifer Sandlin

animals African elephants are on a first name basis with each other Yoy Luadha

AI models Essays explore the hellscape of freelance AI model training Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction How censorship soured Chinese pride over hit sci-fi adaptation of "3 Body Problem" Yoy Luadha

corruption Mayor of Dolton, Illinois vetoes investigation into herself Rob Beschizza

biology Iron Maiden is popular among biologists and taxonomists, so they just named a new lizard species after frontman Bruce Dickinson Jennifer Sandlin

mistakes Google returning AI nonsense in search highlights Rob Beschizza

animals Customs agents stop woman carrying giraffe poop in her luggage David Pescovitz

mistakes Giraffe poop seized from woman who planned to wear it as necklace Rob Beschizza

Science Some optimism about the claim of a room-temperature superconductor Ruben Bolling

mistakes Woman found alive in coffin during own wake definitely dead this time Rob Beschizza

religion More than 300 confirmed dead at Kenyan evangelical cult Rob Beschizza

chess Man wears burka as disguise to enter women's chess championship David Pescovitz

streamers Netflix starts cutting prices Jason Weisberger

ChatGPT pays Kenyan workers $2 an hour to review obscene content Mark Frauenfelder