Science Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep Cory Doctorow

Delightful Creatures Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing Jason Weisberger

television Paramount backs off attempt to suppress Stephen Colbert's post-Late Show public access party Ruben Bolling

politics Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell Rob Beschizza

art Giant crop postcards turned oversize produce into folk art Popkin

Comic Books Revisiting the strange world of Dick Tracy Gareth Branwyn

Science Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference Ellsworth Toohey

books Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science Ellsworth Toohey

robots Bear-deterring "Monster Wolves"sold out in Japan Gail Sherman

africa WHO declares global health emergency over Congo Ebola outbreak Séamus Bellamy

gadgets Doughnut-dunking machines: 1956 inventor's gadgets Ellsworth Toohey

Science Devils Hole pupfish: rarest fish on Earth lives in one Nevada cavern Popkin

Science Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance Rob Beschizza

History Captain Billy's Whiz Bang gave a pastor's Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922 Ellsworth Toohey

books Cartoonist Gemma Correll's moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland Ruben Bolling

History Get a university-level education on buried viking treasure for free Séamus Bellamy

Science Down the Rabbit Hole profiles pseudoscience's most reasonable-sounding perpetual motion crank Grant St. Clair

books Art book features the best 100 games on the Amstrad CPC Rob Beschizza

animals Statue erected to honor landmine-sniffing rat in Cambodia Gail Sherman