Poisonous plants Chinese vlogger thinks she's eating aloe vera on live stream, then rushes to hospital Carla Sinclair

Delightful plants Dangerous plant that can make you go blind spotted in Michigan Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment Tulsa's glowing plant gallery draws fans from across the country Lee Keeler

drugs Santa Claus was actually a psychedelic mushroom Allan Rose Hill

Roman-era Barbarians snorted drugs from tiny spoons on their belts to get fired up for fighting Allan Rose Hill

yummy Purslane is a weed that's ubiquitious, delicious, and nutritious! Jennifer Sandlin

book reviews Mushrooming made easy. Really easy Matt Maranian

Spoken Word with Electronics Samsung's Big Leak: "Up to 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid" spilled into an Austin TX tributary Ethan Persoff

dupe Someone is draining the blood from cattle, leaving them looking like "deflated plush toys" John Struan

Weird Mysterious rash of cattle mutilations in Oregon David Pescovitz

Food Impossible Burger totally possible according to the FDA Séamus Bellamy

Games Seedship: a text-adventure generation-ship game Cory Doctorow

Energy The problem with nuclear waste Mark Frauenfelder

40 of the world's weirdest flowers Nadina Hughes

drug policy Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari

Science The case of the poison potato Maggie Koerth