los angeles Will Ferrell and Joel McHale visit the Hammer Museum Rusty Blazenhoff

hammer museum Los Angeles: Bloomsday at the Hammer, tonight! Jason Weisberger

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

Science The 19th century Central Park dinosaur museum was vandalized by a mad businessman, not Creationists Ruben Bolling

Science Newly-discovered freaky flatworm with hammerhead is named after COVID David Pescovitz

auction The grand finale of the 'I punked the Sotheby's Burning Man auction' saga Rusty Blazenhoff

spotify Listen to James Baldwin's record collection on Spotify Janelle Hessig

dinosaurs 50 life-size animatronic robot dinosaurs are going up for auction Thom Dunn

micronations Sealand's caretakers Rob Beschizza

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

art Banksy painting just sold for $12 million David Pescovitz

oceans Fishing trip surprise: Tiger Shark vs. Hammerhead! David Pescovitz

art You could own Banksy's SWAT Van David Pescovitz

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

This library lets you borrow a sledge hammer Jon Christian

Science Pitch-drop experiments: science's long wait Maggie Koerth