art Paint your hands, grab some googly eyes, and make magic like Mario Mariotti Jennifer Sandlin

film The Scared is Scared: a film where a kid tells the director what the film should be about Popkin

dinosaurs An 8-year-old transformed this empty lot into a complete town for elves and dinosaurs Thom Dunn

magic Ioan Petru Culianu, argonaut of the 4th dimension Ferdinando Buscema

Funny Chef cooks hot tasty tacos on clothes iron while isolating in a Vancouver hotel room during pandemic Xeni Jardin

Science These 1996 Hawaii lava photos look like a horror movie set Popkin

Comic Books Mike Mignola throws Uri Tupka to the devils Gareth Branwyn

AI Slopping Amazon uses AI to invent products you can't buy Jason Weisberger

art Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London Rob Beschizza

Science This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller) Rob Beschizza

gadgets Folding iPhone case ads all but announce the device itself Rob Beschizza

art Giant crop postcards turned oversize produce into folk art Popkin

websites Pomiferous: database featuring more than 7,000 apple varieties Rob Beschizza

cryptids Loveland Frogman could become Ohio's official state cryptid Rob Beschizza

History Prehistoric rock art in Colombia's Serranía de la Lindosa reveals ancient human "Kiss" Popkin

Sid Krofft, who filled childhoods with glorious weirdness, dies at 96 Jason Weisberger

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn

Comics The Superfan Podcast Asks Comics Creators the Right Wrong Questions Gareth Branwyn

"Uri Tupka and the Gods" is a cold, dark, and magnificent trek through Mike Mignola's Lands Unknown Gareth Branwyn

war Pentagon deploys 5,000 more Marines to Middle East as Iran tensions escalate Séamus Bellamy