music Wax Italia: Digging for 45s in Florence and Rome Lee Keeler

mistakes Exploding Whale Memorial Park opens near site where that beached whale was blown up in 1970 Rusty Blazenhoff

late stage capitalism North Carolina Verizon customers, trapped by Hurricane Florence, say they're being throttled and upsold Cory Doctorow

Science Hurricane Florence in 3D, as seen by NASA's MISR onboard the Terra satellite Xeni Jardin

gop Six years ago, North Carolina Republicans voted in a law decreeing that the seas weren't rising Cory Doctorow

Eve Plumb auctions off Brady Bunch memorabilia, including annotated "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!'" script Mark Frauenfelder

david cronenberg Watch David Cronenberg's "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection" (2023), featuring four 18th-century life-size wax anatomical models Jennifer Sandlin

Entertainment New Stan Lee documentary raises age-old question: Who created the Marvel Universe? Ruben Bolling

deaths Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, dead at 79 Rob Beschizza

tabloids Putin kills cows in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

"pornography" Italian mayor defends Florida principal who resigned over "David" statue, calls school "ridiculous" Carla Sinclair

Dead Whale Baseball team rebrands to honor Oregon's famed Exploding Whale Jason Weisberger

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

street art Artist re-imagines traffic signs with the help of creative stickers Jennifer Sandlin

Business Judge blocks merger of publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Shuster Rob Beschizza

hurricane ian The Weather Channel sends reporters to middle of fierce Hurricane Ian (video) [Update] Carla Sinclair

Delightful Creatures Take a few minutes and go check out my favorite opossum, Gladys Jennifer Sandlin

genetics Scientists use DNA Typewriter to encode K-pop lyrics into human genomes Thom Dunn

One leg at a time The Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV has a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell Jason Weisberger