brexit Delicious milkshake wasted on #Brexit's Nigel Farage Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Depictions of Addiction: a free online photography course, starting in two days Cory Doctorow

archaeology This 2,000-year-old Roman dildo is probably… not that David Pescovitz

archaeology This is likely a 2,000-year-old Roman dildo, say archaeologists David Pescovitz

britain Britain's next problem: zombie pigeons Rob Beschizza

art Protestors throw tomato soup on van Gogh painting David Pescovitz

Van of bozos "dressed as clowns and playing creepy music" terrorizing UK town David Pescovitz

clowns Creepy clowns in white van terrorizing schoolchildren in Newcastle, England David Pescovitz

AI This city does not exist Rob Beschizza

animals Fossil of a car-sized millipede found in England Thom Dunn

hearing Scientists uncover the real reason why loud eaters and mouth breathers gross us out David Pescovitz

cruel and unusual punishments In times of olde, drunks were punished by being forced to wear a barrel in public Popkin

A look at the UK's first socially distanced concert venue Rusty Blazenhoff

music Vaughan Oliver — graphic designer for 4AD, Cocteau Twins, Pixies — RIP David Pescovitz

microplastics Study: people could be eating a credit card's worth of microplastics per week Mark Frauenfelder

fake news Queen in drunken brawl, Prince Harry's hell, and Meghan Markle's secrets, in this week's dubious Royal tabloids Peter Sheridan

oceans Wealthy adventurer just became the first person to touch the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean David Pescovitz

uk UN poverty envoy calls UK poverty a "political choice" that inflicted "great misery" Cory Doctorow