Weird This adorable parasite lives in your seafood Popkin

crime Germany unmasks the man behind REvil and GandCrab ransomware Ellsworth Toohey

Merriam-Webster once had a card catalog of 315,000 words spelled backward Gail Sherman

adorable animals The poor otter civet looks like it stuck its face into a wasp nest Jennifer Sandlin

Technology Does Duolingo actually work? One man's 2,000-day experiment (video) Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump gets confused, orders release of Earhart files (rather than Epstein) Grant St. Clair

movies CatVideoFest: watch cat videos on the big screen to help local shelters Gail Sherman

indigenous people US tourist arrested after offering coconut and Diet Coke to Sentinelese islanders Gail Sherman

language If your brain short circuits when you see something cute, that's gigil Gail Sherman

video games The goofy sequel to Oblivion I didn't know I needed Grant St. Clair

word nerds Man wins Spanish Scrabble World Championship — and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish Carla Sinclair

presumed dead U.S. and Canadian climbers vanish while climbing New Zealand's highest peak Carla Sinclair

tech New sonar images of Amelia Earhart's lost plane reveal an unfortunate truth Allan Rose Hill

viral videos Live crabs escape on NYC subway, chaos ensues Ellsworth Toohey

Delightful Creatures Runaway penguin home after 18-mile ocean adventure Gail Sherman

Mr. Brain Worms and Orangey McOrangeface desperately cling to one another Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

mistakes Dead Lobster: seafood chain sinking into bankruptcy Rob Beschizza

facebook Do you have time to talk about our lord and savior, Shrimp Jesus? Gail Sherman

animal attacks Watch a confused hawk repeatedly try to grab a kitten through glass Mark Frauenfelder