magic Weird party trick: rub garlic on your fingers to pick up an egg yolk without it breaking Rusty Blazenhoff

Engineering Listen to the sound of one screw falling into a turbine engine Xeni Jardin

coca-cola How to catch a subterranean catfish using mentos, eggs, and Coca-cola Thom Dunn

music "I AM BLEEDING INTERNALLY" is the feel-bad song of the summer Jennifer Sandlin

tesla Tesla reports two years of falling sales numbers Jason Weisberger

makers One-way cat airlock prevents kitties from bringing friends, dead or alive, into your home Gail Sherman

Boing Boing Gadgets Transform robotic AI text into human writing with this $40 tool Boing Boing's Shop

bike Darwin award nominee shows us one weird trick to beat traffic Popkin

videos Expert archer takes on Hawkeye's greatest shots Grant St. Clair

Science A 60 second sound clip could alleviate video game motion sickness Gail Sherman

elon musk Tesla's solar division discovers one weird trick to stop bad numbers: just don't report them Ellsworth Toohey

chemistry Silica gel's secret history and path to worldwide ubiquity Allan Rose Hill

new york DoorDash execs discover one weird trick to steal tips from drivers (it's just regular stealing) Ellsworth Toohey

politics French far-right leader cancels U.S. speech after Bannon's "Nazi" gesture as German far right distances itself from J.D. Vance Rob Beschizza

Comics "Into the Unbeing" offers 80s-style sci-fi horror for the climate change era Thom Dunn

History 18 million weird old books are waiting for you in this free online archive Ellsworth Toohey

music 27 musicians try to interpret "Hit 'Em," a baffling song from a stranger's dream Thom Dunn

Strange "pillar to heaven" photographed in sky over Thailand Allan Rose Hill

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder