podcast Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Annie Rauwerda

music Animated feature Black is Beltza, Basque music, and the political art of Fermin Muguruza Elías Villoro

movies Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill team up in the trailer for You People Devin Nealy

Art and Design 1950s pulp comic adaptations of Ray Bradbury to be republished Thom Dunn

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

NASA First space-bound Wailaki of Round Valley Indian Tribes woman: Nicole Aunapu Mann Andrew Yi

opossums Opossum hitched a ride to follow his dreams out West Jennifer Sandlin

Mars The chilling sound of Phobos (Mars' moon) Popkin

candy Fact-check: "woke mob" did not remove the "dick vein" from Snickers bars Thom Dunn

rogue political parties A GOP Senator kindly gave trucker protestors a tour of the Capitol Carla Sinclair

reboots King of the Hill is getting a revival series Devin Nealy

movies Creepy documentary and feature film pairings for Halloween David Pescovitz

Exclusive excerpt of three new Christmas Ghost Stories by Seth Mark Frauenfelder

May I have your attention please r/AskHistorians checks the veracity of Eminem lyrics Jason Weisberger

poetry The incredibly complicated question of how to translate inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Thom Dunn

Ancient music Listen to the musical notes of an ancient conch Claudia Dawson

History Castle Bravo: the chilling history of the 1954 US nuclear bomb test Andrea James

marsupials New sighting of a thylacine, a thought-to-be-extinct carnivorous marsupial Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Obama's heartache and Hillary Clinton's heart in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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