Meditative Sounds Listen to the sounds of someone just standing silently Claudia Dawson

DOGE cuts Eerie: Passengers stand on wing of burning American Airlines flight in Denver (video) Carla Sinclair

Science MIT's acoustic stimulation headband may help you fall asleep Ruben Bolling

brain teasers This addictive Morse code game is the new Wordle you never knew you needed Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn

Audio Master recordings of 90s music on slowly dying media Thom Dunn

gadgets Gadget tells you what that mystery USB-C cable can do Rob Beschizza

cars Alarmingly realistic Engine Sound Simulator on the web Rob Beschizza

footage Watch a 40-second forest time-lapse video that took a year to record Popkin

bernie sanders Long COVID expert at US Senate hearing: "the burden of disease and disability from long COVID . . . is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease" Jennifer Sandlin

germany Hornets vs. ants: a battle for water in slo-mo Rusty Blazenhoff

music Swell Season, from the lovely film Once, reuniting for US tour (video) David Pescovitz

Disgraced LA city council member Kevin de León gets into a fight at a toy give-away Jason Weisberger

Spoken Word with Electronics How to Make Sound Waves from Moonlight Ethan Persoff

single-serve websites Website changes your voice Rob Beschizza

Spoken Word with Electronics The Role of Analog Shift Registers in Electronic Music Ethan Persoff

Spoken Word with Electronics The Music of Stranger Things and "Universal Event Generators" Ethan Persoff

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accessibility The Stranger Things closed caption team explains the art of (tentacles undulating moistly) Thom Dunn

tabloids "Humiliated Meghan" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan