History What Neanderthals looked like 75,000 years ago Rob Beschizza

History The wonderful You Must Remember This podcast returns to tell the secret history of Disney's most racist movie, Song of the South Cory Doctorow

racism Elizabeth Warren has a plan to reform "Heirs' Property," which allows wealthy white property developers to steal Black family homes Cory Doctorow

fashion Russians upset by Czech official's socks showing Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral ablaze Rob Beschizza

travel The famed crooked house of Windsor is now a cafe bar and bottle shop Popkin

insects This is the oldest image of a bug's brain Allan Rose Hill

books Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on Kickstarter now Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Math, not artificial intelligence, powers new infinite world generator Ellsworth Toohey

Science AI tries to decipher rules of ancient board game Gail Sherman

Funny Stop by the North American Bigfoot Center Popkin

News Horse breaks loose on Boeing 747, forces flight to turn around Jason Weisberger

Science Newly discovered fossils of a giant whale that may have been the largest animal to ever exist Ruben Bolling

botched surgeries Ohio doctor whose livestreamed plastic surgeries went viral on TikTok loses medical license Carla Sinclair

mississippi In an appeal to racists, a Mississippi State senator sides with rebel slavers Jason Weisberger

politics Shining a light on the dark money of The Marble Freedom Trust Elías Villoro

cats The best songs about depression written from the perspective of a cat Thom Dunn

crime No charges for off-duty cop who killed 13-year-old girl with cruiser. Prosecutor says it doesn't matter if he was speeding. Rob Beschizza

uk The politics of prison abolition in the UK and Ireland Elías Villoro

movies Disney CEO Bob Iger is beginning to question the Marvel method Devin Nealy

Frank LLoyd Wright Check out these wild 3D visualizations of unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright designs Mark Frauenfelder