scams Watch: Gold ring/out of gas scammer tries to con someone who knows better Mark Frauenfelder

AI Babysitter vetting and voice-analysis: Have we reached peak AI snakeoil? Cory Doctorow

short cons 1950s live television: tricks of carnival game swindlers Mark Frauenfelder

books Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View is a rewarding retelling Elías Villoro

documentary New Milli Vanilli documentary looks at the rise and fall of the cancelled lip-syncing duo Rusty Blazenhoff

illusory truth effect Oops! A Fox & Friends pundit slips and calls Ron DeSantis "DeSanctus," and nobody even bats an eye (video) Carla Sinclair

public health RFK Jr.'s journey from environmental lawyer to anti-vax presidential candidate Jennifer Sandlin

china Chinese influencer dies shortly after live-streaming himself downing bottles of potent liquor in challenge Rusty Blazenhoff

pizza New Zealand's Hell Pizza offering new "pay after you die" scheme Jennifer Sandlin

insurrectionists Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes is sentenced to 18 years for Jan. 6 "seditious conspiracy" Carla Sinclair

politics State lawmakers want children to work in bars on school nights to fill "labor shortage" Rob Beschizza

france To cut carbon emissions, France bans short flights when a perfectly good train can get you there Rusty Blazenhoff

housing New Las Vegas housing development names streets after Pokémon Thom Dunn

toys Why haven't toy laser gun sounds changed in 30+ years? Thom Dunn

documentary Classic skateboarding film The Devil's Toy captures the spirit of the sport in Montreal in the 1960s Jennifer Sandlin

music Kendrick Lamar is casually proving why he's one of the best modern rappers again Devin Nealy

paleontology Watch Morne Mamlambo prepare a 4-million-year-old fossilized penguin Jennifer Sandlin

memes By Balenciaga meme is an amalgam of AI, Fashion & Pop Culture Andrew Yi

humor 'An Introvert's Guide to a Party' suggests hiding in the bathroom Rusty Blazenhoff

crime It did not take Sherlock Holmes to match a severed hand with its dismembered victim Jason Weisberger