accidents Race car crashes and bursts into flames at 300 mph — and its legendary driver somehow survives (video) Carla Sinclair

mistakes Postal worker raced Mustang in USPS van, hitting 105 mph Rob Beschizza

horses Horse loses jockey at starting gate but runs entire race anyway — and wins Carla Sinclair

horses Man wins horse race Thom Dunn

races Watch: Can an NYU track star outrun the New York City subway? Carla Sinclair

world records Michael Andretti drives a winning car and the crowd eats it up (literally!) Carla Sinclair

fantasy Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth Andrea James

sports Watch runners cheat in big Shenzhen half marathon David Pescovitz

gifs Watch this semi truck jump 160 feet, setting new record Xeni Jardin

Science Drug that grew extra teeth in mice enters first human trial Ellsworth Toohey

Games This horse-racing board game gives players zero control over anything Ellsworth Toohey

retrocomputing ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web Rob Beschizza

tv Netflix's Avatar season 2 keeps the washed-out look fans hated Grant St. Clair

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

books Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews Ellsworth Toohey

Science No one knows why dark side of Venus has a faint glow Ellsworth Toohey

Science The man who discovered microwaves measured a flower's heartbeat in 1926 Ellsworth Toohey

toys Stretch Armstrong: the gloriously goo-filled toy that shouldn't have worked (but did) Jason Weisberger

Not perhaps in their best interests Days after alleged assassination attempt, Trump administration moves to weaken gun rules Jason Weisberger

History Historian explains why modern bread sucks Séamus Bellamy