Environment Meat industry runoff has created a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico Andrea James

adorable animals eating Watch two 700-pound spotted pigs, Lucy and Ethel, absolutely enraptured by a gourmet spaghetti feast Jennifer Sandlin

ads Ad for delicious organic dog meat turns out to have ulterior motive Rob Beschizza

All-One The story behind Dr. Bronner's, the soap company that's been fascinating people for 75 years Jennifer Sandlin

Funny The Disgusting Food Museum of Sweden Popkin

architecture These weird windows are designed to stop witch attacks Thom Dunn

animal crossing "Animal crossing is a political hypothesis about how a different kind of world might work Dash with no losers" – Bogost Mark Frauenfelder

Business In China's once poverty-stricken villages, former peasants manufacture a single product for one retailer Cory Doctorow

pigs Adorable pigs go through animated factory slaughterhouse Mark Frauenfelder

politics Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical Cory Doctorow

mushrooms How I learned to think like a mushroom Tradd Cotter