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

Delightful Creatures Watch this athletic cat hit every ping pong ball that flies over the net Carla Sinclair

ping pong The smart way to play ping pong Mark Frauenfelder

rube goldberg machine Insane ping pong ball trick shots Rusty Blazenhoff

music Watch the US premiere of this concerto for orchestra and ping pong Andrea James

manufacturing How ping pong balls are made David Pescovitz

sports Bowling with ping pong balls Rob Beschizza

ping pong This Pongo Portable Set lets you play ping pong on any table in the house Wink

Space Watch an astronaut play liquid ping pong in space David Pescovitz

Technology Sony's table tennis robot beat a pro player she couldn't read Ellsworth Toohey

television SpongeBob's original bible banned romance and the surface world Popkin

OpenAI pulls plug on Sora after realizing it built a money incinerator Jason Weisberger

Science The War Department's 1944 guide to FM radio is still a great explainer Ellsworth Toohey

Science Living human brain cells are now playing Doom Ellsworth Toohey

resist Slow the march of fascism with ideas from this declassified CIA document Séamus Bellamy

art Paint your hands, grab some googly eyes, and make magic like Mario Mariotti Jennifer Sandlin

giant squid Behold, the earliest known photograph of a giant squid, taken in 1874 Popkin

movies Trailer for "Marty Supreme," the story of an egotistical ping-pong player Grant St. Clair

Science Why Ganzfeld experiments haven't proven ESP Popkin