ASL Watch Kelly Kurdi sign "Baby Got Back" Jennifer Sandlin

History Notre-Dame prepares to reopen five years after fire that nearly destroyed it Rob Beschizza

politics How a dictator keeps things fresh: From polonium tea to severed cables Ellsworth Toohey

star wars Bipedal robot combines multiple sci-fi franchises Gail Sherman

air travel Couple's $2K ordeal: Airline rejects passport over small coffee stain Mark Frauenfelder

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

Science Scientists make temporarily transparent mice Jennifer Sandlin

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politics SCOTUS: Denying homeless people a place to sleep is not cruel or unusual Jason Weisberger

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

politics Kansas GOP donors beat an effigy of President Biden Jason Weisberger

elon musk Xitter kicks off a journalist exposing spam, instead of the spammer Jason Weisberger

Bird scooters files for bankruptcy Jason Weisberger

lawsuits American Airlines sues skiplagging website that helps travelers find cheap routes Rob Beschizza

Georgia's rotten peach Anti-drag queen Marjorie Taylor Greene says reporters may dress in drag — if they are her boyfriend (video) Carla Sinclair

new york Prisoners' headstones in New York now humanized with names, not just ID numbers Rusty Blazenhoff

ev Route 66, America's historic highway, to be rehabbed Rusty Blazenhoff

fbi Still free: Assata Shakur, fifty years on the FBI's most wanted list Elías Villoro

When the "songs that make you smile" are Smiths instrumentals Elías Villoro

super mario LUSH introduces new SUPER MARIO-themed soap Thom Dunn