GenX These geriatric ravers (aka, "gravers") are still partying hard Popkin

baby Glow-in-the-dark binkies Rusty Blazenhoff

mdma Heavy Ecstasy Parking Lot: Ravers the day after a massive rave in 1993 Xeni Jardin

Games Mario Kart World: new Nintendo racer is open-world for some reason Grant St. Clair

madagascar The lowland streaked tenrec uses its spines to communicate via ultrasonic noises Jennifer Sandlin

travel Three magical places around the world to experience fairy lore and whimsy Popkin

pittsburgh The death stairs of Pittsburgh Rob Beschizza

accidents Billionaire founder of fashion chain falls and dies while hiking in Spain Carla Sinclair

music Machine Girl refines and redefines digital hardcore yet again Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

fantasy Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition Gareth Branwyn

Entertainment The riveting 2024 Snail Racing World Championships Gail Sherman

politics Newsom, Whitmer and Buttigieg all back Kamala Harris for President Rob Beschizza

Games Non-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159 Rob Beschizza

Games The emergent complexity of Hexopolis: a strategy game with infinite possibilities Jane Frauenfelder

music Chechnya bans fast and slow music, including Russian nat'l anthem Natalie Dressed

science fiction Review: Paul Di Filippo trips the multiverse fantastic in "Vangie's Ghosts" Gareth Branwyn

Delightful Creatures Cats rule, and dogs drool, but why? Gail Sherman

drugs YouTube star arrested for allegedly supplying ravers with snake venom to get high David Pescovitz

biology Iron Maiden is popular among biologists and taxonomists, so they just named a new lizard species after frontman Bruce Dickinson Jennifer Sandlin

VR The Library of Babel implemented in VRChat Rob Beschizza