Comics Glow-in-the-dark inks, real bullet holes, and other gimmicky comic book covers (video) Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
Frauds The ghost-busting duo: Harry Houdini and Rose Mackenberg's crusade against fake psychics and spiritualists Carolyn Townsend
Robert Anton Wilson "A Ugandan hunter is tranquilizing gorillas and dressing them in clown suits" — the origins of a crazy story that lives on Mark Frauenfelder
science is cool OpenVertebrate is a massive database of 3-D scanned images of 13,000 (and counting!) vertebrate specimens Jennifer Sandlin
trump Trump was denied relief from his $450m fraud judgment. Now he's been denied relief from his $83m rape and defamation judgment Rob Beschizza
American Journal of Infection Control New study finds that closing the toilet lid when flushing isn't all that effective for cutting down viral contamination Jennifer Sandlin
books Upcoming book: How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page Ruben Bolling
personal finance In 1995, Patrick Combs deposited a fake junk mail check for $95,093 and the bank cleared it Mark Frauenfelder