1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin

food history Retro food horror: 1963 cookbook photo of bananas wrapped in pickled herring Popkin

1950s Man hilariously reacts to gelatin-forward vintage recipes like "spinach and sardine mold" Jennifer Sandlin

ball pit Watch people flying through the air as they're blob-launched into a giant ball pit Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids Testicles in a jar (and China's invasion of America) in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

communal condiments Two pranksters ain't laughing after dipping their chopsticks where they didn't belong Carla Sinclair

waste not want not Have you ever eaten banana peels? Jennifer Sandlin

scams Pearl parties: The multi-level marketing scam that just won't die Jennifer Sandlin

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt's secret daughter, and George Clooney's plastic surgery shocker, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Kids The inventor of the ball pit was inspired by a jar of pickled onions David Pescovitz

books Volk: a sinister, Lovecraftian tale of eugenics, Naziism, and "radiant abomination" Cory Doctorow

History Ada Lovelace: what would go into an Internet of Women's Things? Jasmina Tesanovic

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery