National Geographic National Geographic mag lays off its last staff writers Rob Beschizza

books Echo is a beautiful and mesmerizing history of concert posters Thom Dunn

serious business Print is not dead Rob Beschizza

Technology FTC deal forces John Deere to share repair tools for 10 years Séamus Bellamy

books A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery Ellsworth Toohey

Games Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966 Ellsworth Toohey

cryptid fantasy This Bigfoot YouTube channel is entertaining woo in documentary drag Jason Weisberger

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mountain The mountain where climbers stop short of the summit on purpose Jason Weisberger

relics Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history Jason Weisberger

Technology Camel-racing robots wear perfume so the camels accept them Ellsworth Toohey

movies Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 Séamus Bellamy

science fiction Starlog returns in November after 17 years out of print Rob Beschizza

Technology The oldest surviving film is two seconds of a family walking in a garden Ellsworth Toohey

Mountains out of mole hills JD Vance discovers the Nicene Creed in a yard sign Jason Weisberger

video Masking a physical replica of Space Cadet Pinball Ellsworth Toohey

History A stunt pilot doing loops around the Soviet propaganda megaplane crashed into it, killing 45 Ellsworth Toohey

books Kevin Kelly's plan for the smallest library to restart civilization Ellsworth Toohey

AI Xbox raises console prices by up to $150 starting August Grant St. Clair

free speech Zine publisher sentenced to 50 years in prison for "material support to terrorists" Ellsworth Toohey