happy mutants Ghanaian parliament erupts into giggles as MPs learn about towns called "Vagina is Wise," "Penis is a Fool" and "Testicles are Sad" Cory Doctorow

music This site turns LA Metro trains into ambient music Popkin

History In 1810, a prankster sent 4,000 letters to flood one London address with chimney sweeps, coffins, and the Lord Mayor Ellsworth Toohey

fbi Ex-CIA official arrested with $40M in gold bars at home Séamus Bellamy

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

Technology Why the "It's not X, it's Y" AI tic backfires on its writers Ellsworth Toohey

privacy Tucson cops cracked a cigarette case using a tool tracking 500M phones Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Can I lick it? The dining room periodic table Rob Beschizza

design A manhole cover may have been the first object launched into space Popkin

apple App that tracks ICE agents disappears after government "demands" Apple remove it Ellsworth Toohey

Games Mysterious obelisk in California desert sparks intense speculation Grant St. Clair

Happy Mutants "Gretapocalypse" is a Greta Thunberg-themed art car made from the "shredded remnants of the very tools of the American dream" Jennifer Sandlin

acab Attempt to chill reports of police misconduct in Los Angeles ruled illegal Jason Weisberger

News President faces hostile, jeering crowd at NFL game Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Sennheiser's HDB 630 headphones a hit with reviewers Rob Beschizza

shutdown Trump says NPS staff aren't needed. Fires and trash say otherwise Jason Weisberger

Weird Doomsday scoreboard still at zero, but don't worry — we've got eight more chances to die screaming Popkin

crime Dog owner forced man who ran it over to dig its grave Rob Beschizza

Friends of ICE sniper: he lived on 4chan irony, not politics Jason Weisberger

disgrace Mystery firm to build desert concentration camp where Japanese Americans were once interned Jason Weisberger