happy mutants Someone cosplayed the Javits Center at this year's New York Comic-Con (which is held at the Javits Center) Cory Doctorow
News Watch an excruciating interview where Biden's top economic advisor rambles incoherently when asked a simple question Mark Frauenfelder
short films Knights and Relationships is an intimate epic fantasy short film coming from X-MEN '97 storyboard artist Sam Tung Thom Dunn
fox news Tucker Carlson humiliates himself by denying evolution on Joe Rogan podcast Mark Frauenfelder
Games The emergent complexity of Hexopolis: a strategy game with infinite possibilities Jane Frauenfelder
gun violence Jennifer and James Crumbley — parents of Michigan teen mass shooter — sentenced 10 to 15 years Carla Sinclair
Willy Wonka The Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience fiasco is lurching back to life as a musical Carolyn Townsend
climate change Eunice Newton Foote: The forgotten scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856 Carolyn Townsend
politics CNN: Biden directs campaign "to highlight the crazy shit that Trump says in public" Jason Weisberger
Food "What a waste of a beautiful piece of meat" — restaurant ruins tomahawk steak and charges $1000 for it Mark Frauenfelder
sesame street Ad transforms Oscar the Grouch into darling of the contemporary art world Jennifer Sandlin