sports Mud Bowl celebrates 50th year Rob Beschizza

sports Hundreds sick with pustules, fever, and more after participating in Tough Mudder Sonoma Jennifer Sandlin

Primitive Technology Primitive Technology makes a slow pottery wheel Gareth Branwyn

architecture Award-winning architect designs a mud and bamboo building Andrea James

Kids How to make hikaru dorodango, shiny mud balls Andrea James

politics Young men love Andrew Tate because far-right destroyed every support system they had Ellsworth Toohey

politics Competing Disco Elysium successors announced Grant St. Clair

delightful creatures Golden retriever finds mud at the park — comes home as a chocolate lab (video) Carla Sinclair

los angeles Watch: LA firefighter in SUV was swept into ocean by mudslide (he escapes!) Carla Sinclair

politics Britain's Chancellor Rachel Reeves fibbed on resume and was investigated over expenses at last real job Rob Beschizza

Watch teenage Marianne Faithfull sing "As Tears Go By" a cappella in long-lost film scene Ellsworth Toohey

Science How to filter sediment from muddy water with a paper towel and some cups Popkin

politics DC cop convicted for tipping off Proud Boys about police operations Ellsworth Toohey

Business End of the road for Big Lots Rob Beschizza

Wham-O How African killifish almost became Wham-O's coolest toy of the 1960s Ellsworth Toohey

police Police bust party of 120 people in their underwear Allan Rose Hill

dogs Adorable messy puppy game Doronoko Wanko coming to Switch and getting DLC Gail Sherman

bah humbug Decorate your Mac for the holidays with Festivitas Gail Sherman

music Steely Dan's Donald Fagen curses out the makers of a new documentary on Yacht Rock Ruben Bolling