lovecraftian horrors Mysterious hole appears in the floor of a 175-year-old New England house, attempting to swallow the owner Thom Dunn

old houses How to drill into a secret room you suspect lies in the voids of your pre-war home Rob Beschizza

dogs Dachshund parade claims world record Gail Sherman

makers One of the last RadioShacks is inside a literal shack in remote Alaska Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

evacuations A sinkhole 5-stories long swallows UK street, followed by a second hole — 30 homes evacuate (video) Carla Sinclair

Science Brief morning red light exposure improves aging adults' color vision by 20% Ellsworth Toohey

out-of-control drivers Weird: 3 cars plow through homes this week — 2 in Texas, 1 in Pennsylvania (video) Carla Sinclair

iceland Guide to Icelandic turf houses Rob Beschizza

tech Japan's Extinct Media Museum makes me feel ancient Gail Sherman

science fiction Dyson Trees could make a home for humans—and other things Rob Beschizza

travel Three magical places around the world to experience fairy lore and whimsy Popkin

old-fashioned facts Design for Disaster: 63-year-old LAFD film perfectly describes — and warns of — today's Los Angeles fires (video) Carla Sinclair

Nature The strange beauty of curved icicles Popkin

psychology Stanford's massive tobacco ad archive reveals a century of psychological manipulation Ellsworth Toohey

politics Costco claps back at "reprehensible radical right" organization's anti-DEI demand Jennifer Sandlin

music When you listen to Spotify, are you listening to ghost musicians? Ruben Bolling

travel Move over Pisa: this German church tower is the world's most tilted building Ellsworth Toohey

Delightful Creatures Watch cat's amusing crab-walk routine to avoid touching snow (video) Carla Sinclair

mp3 A look back at the underappreciated wonder of MP3 CDs Thom Dunn