oy vey Watch as a poor soul calmly accepts an unfortunate outcome Jason Weisberger

oy vey A heartbreaking video of Republican folks regurgitating lies to avoid accepting what Republicans did on January 6 Jason Weisberger

oy vey GQP Rep. Madison Cawthorn asks mothers to please let their sons grow up to be monsters Jason Weisberger

language The Yiddish roots of "glitch" David Pescovitz

oy vey Top Trump officials may receive pay raises while government workers remain unpaid Jason Weisberger

Games Examining the plumbing of Starfield in far too much detail Grant St. Clair

Science Economists calculate the monetary value of pets Gail Sherman

hypotheticals Obama would clobber Trump in 3rd-term presidential run, says new poll Carla Sinclair

COVID-19 Remembering musical legend John Prine, five years after he died from COVID-19 Jennifer Sandlin

Science 75% of US scientists considering leaving the country, says new Nature poll Allan Rose Hill

Team stuck at remote Antarctica base emailed that one of them is violent and threatened murder Allan Rose Hill

media E.T. is satanic. The Smurfs too, don't ya know (video) Allan Rose Hill

Technology Disney employee loses everything after hacker steals passwords and work data Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment The Meyers brothers' family trip to a podcast festival Ruben Bolling

Science A "Game of Thrones style" wall of ice is on the move Gail Sherman

maps Ultra-detailed map of U.S. rivers Rob Beschizza

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

politics Republicans blame Los Angeles wildfires on their favorite issues Jason Weisberger

Cute Animals This chinchilla provides all the fitspo you need Jennifer Sandlin

books Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on Kickstarter now Mark Frauenfelder