Funny Apple Engineer El Risitas on the new 2016 Macbook Pro Andrea James

History In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It's still empty. Ellsworth Toohey

art A piece of the Eiffel Tower's original staircase is going to auction Ellsworth Toohey

cities Fascinating 3D timelapse of Paris' development Jason Weisberger

Buddhist monks Meet Aloka, the "Peace Dog" who has joined 19 Buddhist monks on a "Walk for Peace" across the US Jennifer Sandlin

art Fascinating blog covers the provenance of a painting stolen by the Nazis Natalie Dressed

Technology How a parrot on a flag reveals why AI exists Ellsworth Toohey

music The mysterious curse of the ninth symphony that haunted famous composers Popkin

politics Prepare for the worst: journalists who survived dictators sound alarm over Trump's press threats Ellsworth Toohey

Games Jungle music in 1990s video games Rob Beschizza

child abuse CPAC performer faces 25 years for alleged child sex crimes Ellsworth Toohey

Science Apparently seeing green apples is proof that all ravens are black Mark Frauenfelder

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abstract expressionism Artist has applied over one million dabs of acrylic paint to create his artwork during the past 12 years Jennifer Sandlin

paintings Gustav Klimt portrait, lost for a century, turns up in Vienna Rob Beschizza

True Detective Here's how the grotesque "corpsicle" from True Detective: Night Country was created Jennifer Sandlin

uk "Castration by clamping" leads to court conviction for UK nullos Rob Beschizza

myth busting Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin

antiques Construction crew digs up magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head that had been reused as building material David Pescovitz

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