mel brooks Mel Brooks announces sequel: 'History of the World, Part II' Rusty Blazenhoff

nyc Remembering the Automat Bob Knetzger

comedy Deleted scenes from Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" Gareth Branwyn

intellectual property The weird IP story of the forgotten "Blazing Saddles" TV spin-off Thom Dunn

News Mel Brooks appears in his first political video: 'Vote For Joe' Xeni Jardin

tabloids Russian sleeper cells and White House brawls in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

HDSF Meet the Space Bum, ambiguous stock character of generations of science fiction Jesse Sheidlower

Boing Boing Gadgets Keep your home cool as a cucumber this summer with this portable AC unit Boing Boing's Shop

josh duggar Jim Bob Duggar's testimony is deemed 'not credible' in son Josh Duggar's child pornography trial Annie Rauwerda

Technology New device for smelling in stereo David Pescovitz

Virtual reality Digital synesthesia: Tricking your brain into experiencing smell as temperature in virtual reality David Pescovitz

art Watch Mel Brooks' wonderfully funny and very short animated film "The Critic" (1963) David Pescovitz

books Judy Blume's "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" coming to to big screen David Pescovitz

robotics Rodney Brooks on the present and future of robotics & AI Rob Reid

Copyfight Canadian entertainment industry begs Chinese courts to censor its movies Cory Doctorow

happy mutants In 1956, Hugh Hefner gave MAD's founding editor an unlimited budget for a new satire magazine called "TRUMP" Cory Doctorow

obits Sir John Hurt, 1940-2017 Rob Beschizza

picks Actor Gene Wilder dies at 83 Xeni Jardin

security Iranians connected to phishing attempt on tortured Syrian activist Cory Doctorow