art Make your own M.C. Escher-style metamorphosis Rob Beschizza

design Design firm reveals new MC Escher wallpaper Andrea James

videos Therapy from a man in a gecko suit Grant St. Clair

art Films, books and artwork entering the public domain in 2025 Rob Beschizza

Atlas Obscura's list of alluring geometrical houses Popkin

Science A handsome and mesmerizing perpetual motion simulator Rob Beschizza

copyright M.C. Escher's work will enter public domain in some countries this year but not the United States Mark Frauenfelder

animals Dutch officials permit shooting paintballs at wolves to make the wild animals "less tame" David Pescovitz

music Kitty cats crawl through a surreal landscape in video paired with Magnetic Fields song Popkin

optical illusions In this 3D-printed sculpture, how does the ball defy gravity and roll uphill? David Pescovitz

kickstarter Kickstart this collection of Shakespeare-themed horror stories Thom Dunn

American fascists Elise Stefanik continues to endorse Hitler-praising candidate Mark Frauenfelder

birds These webcams allow you to spy on adorable birds in their nests in real-time Popkin

weirdness "More people have been to Berlin than I have" — the strangeness of "Escher sentences" Popkin

math "This statement is false": animated explainer of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem David Pescovitz

sci fi James Lipnickas' eerie graphite drawings of alien-human high-rises Clive Thompson

deaths Fourth death at "The Vessel" sculpture in New York City's Hudson Yards Rob Beschizza