pizza rat Meet Reese's Rat, our new viral Rat Hero Jennifer Sandlin

animatronics Watch the final performance of a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic house band Thom Dunn

new york city The Transit app now provides a crowd-sourced "ratistical analysis" of the rattiness of New York City transit stops Jennifer Sandlin

pizza rat Is Escalator Rat the new Pizza Rat? Andrea James

pranks Watch out for the remote-controlled Pizza Rat! David Pescovitz

pizza Pizza rat Xeni Jardin

videos Making the world's most cursed waffles with Guinness beer Grant St. Clair

Hot Pockets: 90's lunch legend or molten lava bricks? Jason Weisberger

Malaysian fraudsters get rich by pretending clean cooking oil is used Ellsworth Toohey

Art and Design Photographer captures America's vanishing roadside treasures in stunning new book Ruben Bolling

animals Strange friendship: The carnivorous plant that lets bats use it as a toilet Popkin

Weird Carbonating tuna fish, because maybe we shouldn't have free will Grant St. Clair

Boing Boing Gadgets Get a credit-card-size tracker—because a lumpy one ain't it Boing Boing's Shop

celebrity Ringo offers a mature look back at The Beatles Jason Weisberger

nightmare fuel Flesh-eating screwworms march north as DOGE cuts funding on everything we need to stop them Séamus Bellamy

Science Scientists discover why your middle-age metabolism is being such a jerk Ellsworth Toohey

politics Poor Michael Flynn discovers conspiracy theories aren't fun anymore Ellsworth Toohey

Science High-fat high-sugar diets make you suck at games Rob Beschizza

music Cyberculture pioneer RU Sirius's new album of "rhymes against reality" David Pescovitz

Funny Real Italians roast your pathetic attempts at Italian food Grant St. Clair