Christmas game How to play a fiery Victorian Christmas game and not get burned Miss Cellania

travel Paddle Up: a tour of some of the world's quirkiest ping pong spots according to Atlas Obscura Popkin

education College presidents' names reveal historical power structures Ellsworth Toohey

Games Borderlands boss defends $80 price tag, says "real fans" will "find a way to make it happen" Grant St. Clair

Watch these thrilling, brutal, nail-biting moments from the year in, um, table tennis Allan Rose Hill

Twits X CEO laughs as Elon cracks Nazi jokes Jason Weisberger

statistics A comprehensive statistical analysis of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Thom Dunn

politics Arizona State Senator cheers on rightwing Germans with the Nazi theme song Jason Weisberger

politics The Economist: Hard Right election win in Germany takes it into "uncharted territory" Rob Beschizza

politics "Who Goes Nazi?" This 1941 spot-the-fascist game could come in handy soon Yoy Luadha

art Magnificent oil paintings of videogame arcades and pinball parlors David Pescovitz

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Games These odd Victorian Christmas parlor games look fun and potentially quite dangerous David Pescovitz

tabloids The tabloids use news stories to mirror and amplify their own Weltanschauung Peter Sheridan

dream vacations Jaywick once again named Britain's poorest town Rob Beschizza

comedians Comedians in a room playing foosball Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Chicagoans can actually play "Machine Learning President," the election RPG Cory Doctorow

Games Cambridge Analytica's financiers somehow got hold of a simulation game designed to warn about machine-learning's corruption of politics Cory Doctorow

music Old-timey mass evangelism and the phonograph David Katznelson

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya