christ what an asshole New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: "cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one" Cory Doctorow

History Sid Caesar built the writers' room that taught Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen how to be funny Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

Science The Vatican has run an astronomical observatory since 1774 Ellsworth Toohey

comedy Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime Grant St. Clair

History The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct Ellsworth Toohey

music Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood" Ruben Bolling

History A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home Ellsworth Toohey

religion A cargo cult in Vanuatu has been waiting for an American named John Frum since the 1930s Ellsworth Toohey

History The WWII commando who fought with a broadsword, longbow, and bagpipes Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake Séamus Bellamy

art Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Jason Weisberger

books In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity Ellsworth Toohey

Republicans MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security Jason Weisberger

History The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom Ellsworth Toohey

robot Robo-party clown ignores Asimov's first law of robotics Jason Weisberger

History How a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme Ellsworth Toohey

art Poster of The Birds of Palestine Rob Beschizza

Technology What happens when the machine keeping you alive dies on vacation Ellsworth Toohey

History How a businessman's hunch became New Age gospel Ellsworth Toohey