sports Now, a smiley-faced basketball Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Trailer for Michael Mann's "Manhunter: The Final Cut" Rob Beschizza

politics Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell Rob Beschizza

movies Phones will soon be allowed in Alamo Drafthouse theaters Séamus Bellamy

crime Brown University shooting suspect found dead Rob Beschizza

politics JD Vance downplays Young Republican leaders' pro-Hitler, racist, antisemitic comments: "Pearl-clutching" Ellsworth Toohey

Games Get this party game that challenges players to describe complex concepts using only basic words like "person," "do," and "thing" Mark Frauenfelder

force-feeding propaganda Trump gets ugly with ABC reporter who won't agree to his Garcia tattoo lie (video) Carla Sinclair

computers The mysterious "small house" in an old IBM character set Rob Beschizza

uber Live and dead animals, a DNA test, and 175 hamburgers among odd items left in Ubers Allan Rose Hill

gadgets Qudi Mask hides your face behind an LED display Rob Beschizza

museums The Busy Beaver Button Co is one of the few museums on earth which is devoted to collecting and displaying pinback buttons Popkin

law Probate court approves hand-written Aretha Franklin will found in couch and signed with a smiley Rob Beschizza

art Duda Lozano creates beautiful, realistic "patch-style" tattoos Jennifer Sandlin

fun Ms. Pearl is a 14-foot-tall squirrel who lives in Cedar Creek, Texas Jennifer Sandlin

roadside attraction Visit the World's Largest Chile Pepper in Las Cruces, New Mexico Jennifer Sandlin

politics According to Pizzagate conspiracy theorists, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Pizza Hut boxes are encouraging Satanic ritual abuse Jennifer Sandlin

Barbie movie Evangelicals rail against Barbie, demand Americans not take children to see film Jennifer Sandlin

Real things you can actually buy Soap that goes from happy to sad as it gets used Rusty Blazenhoff