guitar The automobile industry killed a legendary guitar pickup. 40 years later, Fender just brought it back. Thom Dunn

neuroscience Humans have a sixth sense for Earth's magnetic field David Pescovitz

physics Magnets and Marbles Rob Beschizza

movies If you thought the first Scream movie had gay subtext, Matthew Lillard thinks you're right Grant St. Clair

Earth Earth-bathing: the 18th-century doctor who believed burying yourself in dirt could heal the body Popkin

geometry Why did this famous mathematician want a 17-sided shape on his tombstone? Ellsworth Toohey

Comic Books Read this incredible essay about Magneto, Judaism, and the legacy of the Holocaust Thom Dunn

Ad John Carter of Mars' Secret Weapon: MDRNST Boxer Briefs Boing Boing

religion American fanatic arrested for smashing 2,000-year-old Roman statues in Israel Mark Frauenfelder

rigged games Watch how this genius outsmarts rigged claw machines Mark Frauenfelder

trees Vertically challenged: Cook pine trees lean mysteriously toward the equator Rusty Blazenhoff

books Fascinating interview with dystopian author JG Ballard on the "Art of Fiction" David Pescovitz

Science This otherworldly timelapse of the Aurora Borealis is astonishing David Pescovitz

celebrities 19th-century women went nuts for Franz Liszt, music's first celebrity Annie Rauwerda

fraud The Amazing Randi debunked sweaty "magnetic" people Jason Weisberger

anti-vaxxers gone wild "Magnetized" nurse's demonstration of metal key sticking to her because of vaccine backfires Kevin Reome