archaeology A truck crashed into one of the Easter Island head statues and destroyed it David Pescovitz

georgia Visit Howard Finster's Paradise Garden and more on this funky art sites road trip! Jennifer Sandlin

News Drunk American tourist damages 800-year-old Kyoto temple Ellsworth Toohey

politics YouTube's favorite money-throwing manchild learns that Mexico's president doesn't appreciate his temple tourism tomfoolery Grant St. Clair

tourism Fodor's No List 2025: dream destinations that have become nightmares Ellsworth Toohey

politics Swiss "burka ban" goes into effect with $1,000 fines for face coverings in 2025 Mark Frauenfelder

Science "Cave of Bones" scientist Lee Berger talks about extinct apes that buried their dead and created art Ruben Bolling

Delightful Creatures Watch: Andean condor reunited with the man who saved it Elías Villoro

elon musk NDAs help Elon Musk's exploding rocket problem stay in the dark Elías Villoro

whales King Charles, breaking from tradition, will not be slathered with whale intestines and civet secretions Thom Dunn

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

qanon shaman In prison interview, QAnon Shaman shares paranoid fantasies about the Deep State's "two-tiered slavery system" Mark Frauenfelder

conspiracy theories A major QAnon hub has shut down after its founder was outed Thom Dunn

australia Mining company destroys sacred Aboriginal cave in Western Australia. They're "sorry." David Pescovitz

native americans The Trump administration is blowing up a religious burial site to make room for their stupid wall Thom Dunn

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

piketty After Notre Dame bailout Yellow Vests urge more Victor Hugo tributes, starting with "Les Miserables" Cory Doctorow

elections The GOP stole Wisconsin; now they're trying to steal it again on the way out — PROTEST TODAY! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle