memes This psychedelic Nyan Cat art car is headed to Burning Man to dole out 'toaster pastries' and 'phat beats' Rusty Blazenhoff

crime Smugglers were caught with 5,000 Kenyan queen ants worth $220 each Ellsworth Toohey

flight Idaho high schoolers build two airplanes, then go fly them Jason Weisberger

mistakes The truth about Lt. Columbo Rob Beschizza

robots Dystopian "pregnancy robot" thankfully an AI hoax Gail Sherman

Science Cyborg cockroach production nears one per minute Rob Beschizza

robots Cyborg-Insect Factory is a real machine that turns cockroaches into robots Allan Rose Hill

olympics The 1904 Olympics Marathon gold medalist won while hallucinating on rat poison and brandy Ellsworth Toohey

Bear that trashed Rolls Royce was actually insurance fraudsters in a costume Allan Rose Hill

animals Purrents complaining that new feline tax could be a cat-astrophe Allan Rose Hill

wild west Legendary gold rush milkman Snowshoe Thompson gets his due Carolyn Townsend

covid Just a few weeks in, passengers on this nine-month cruise have already endured a COVID outbreak, racial microaggressions, and an emergent class system Jennifer Sandlin

hawaii Lahaina's Banyan tree grows new leaves Jason Weisberger

Happy Mutants This Paul Bunyan-style Muffler Man did not disappoint Jennifer Sandlin

maui Lahaina's historic Banyan tree may survive Jason Weisberger

gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza

werner herzog The curious history of the dancing chicken in Werner Herzog's 1977 film Stroszek Jennifer Sandlin

mistakes Woman found alive in coffin during own wake definitely dead this time Rob Beschizza

ChatGPT pays Kenyan workers $2 an hour to review obscene content Mark Frauenfelder

Science Richard Leakey, fossil hunter and anthropologist, RIP David Pescovitz