awkward silences Mitch McConnell stops talking mid-sentence during press conference Mark Frauenfelder

horror Time-traveling dinosaur movie looks like a lot of fun Grant St. Clair

art Giant crop postcards turned oversize produce into folk art Popkin

History 19-year-old got 12 years for selling $5 of pot in 1975 Ellsworth Toohey

art Store Called Store is a shoppable art installation in Brooklyn Popkin

Science Scientists finally cracked how bacteria's spinning motor actually works Ellsworth Toohey

DHS Are Palantir employees starting to realize they're the baddies? Séamus Bellamy

film We're going to be getting new Hunger Games movies forever Grant St. Clair

gadgets DIY camera inspired by production design of 1979's Alien Rob Beschizza

Science Documented cases of people who literally died laughing Ellsworth Toohey

politics Congress kills America's $2.8 billion hemp industry overnight Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Esquisse is a tiny interchangeable-lens camera Rob Beschizza

hollywood The history of a fake Hollywood cigarette brand Séamus Bellamy

anthropology Hidden North American tribe performs daily self-torture in pursuit of beauty Ellsworth Toohey

auctions From dodo bones to devil pinball: Inside the year's strangest auction Ellsworth Toohey

Lincoln Project floats Murdoch/Vance scenario to sideline Trump via 25th Amendment Jason Weisberger

History Documentary uncovers forgotten 1946 football game months after Nagasaki bombing Ellsworth Toohey

Science Ominous sea level report card for most U.S. coastal communities Rob Beschizza

politics JD Vance crawls off couch to protect Trump's economy-crushing tariffs Ellsworth Toohey

News Historic oak that survived Spanish Armada felled by restaurant chain Ellsworth Toohey