politics Watch: creepy anti-vax doctor Simone Gold is angry she is going to jail for storming Capitol on J6 Mark Frauenfelder

books The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy Ellsworth Toohey

uk UK's Virgin Media fined $28m for hanging up on people calling to cancel Rob Beschizza

anti-knock Trump's answer to high gas prices is socialism with patriotic branding Jason Weisberger

History In 1872 a ship was found drifting, empty. The 1913 "solution" was absurd. Ellsworth Toohey

politics The Good Liars find state fair MAGA fans who rank Trump over God Grant St. Clair

Science A synthetic cell grew, copied its DNA, and split in two Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Starlog returns in November after 17 years out of print Rob Beschizza

Everyone is welcome here Trump's immigration ghoul is back to explaining why some babies don't count Jason Weisberger

climate change Floodmap shows the world without ice Rob Beschizza

Bear spray incident prompts evacuation of NYC hotel  Gail Sherman

conspiracy theories Fred LaBour invented most of the 'Paul is dead' clues as a joke and was stunned when the world believed them Ellsworth Toohey

trump Supreme Court rejects Trump appeal of sexual assault verdict Rob Beschizza

History The Strand once published a jade specimen worth exactly one fat man Ellsworth Toohey

History Om Malik, 1966-2026 Rob Beschizza

politics CDC buried this COVID vaccine study, so scientists published it anyway Séamus Bellamy

History In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford Ellsworth Toohey

Mmmmmuscles Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop's muscles Jason Weisberger

Science In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon. Ellsworth Toohey

politics The Good Liars went to Freedom 250 so the rest of us didn't have to Grant St. Clair