web theory Chinese kids brawl with KFC customers as South China Sea online patriotism campaign spills onto the streets Cory Doctorow

web theory Viral Chinese video: "Who cares?" Cory Doctorow

UFOs New UFO footage released by US Department of Defense (video) David Pescovitz

art Bob Eckstein's watercolor postcards Elías Villoro

surveillance First photos of US Navy's retrieval of Chinese spy balloon wreckage David Pescovitz

Space China sending monkeys to space to have sex David Pescovitz

snacks Pickled fish, Italian red meat, chicken and waffles, and other weird potato chip flavors in China David Pescovitz

Pyrrhic victory It takes the tenacity of an abdicated village to raise a Nail House Andrew Yi

heat-resistant ice cream Ice cream in China doesn't melt, even under a flame, sparking controversy Carla Sinclair

military US Navy hauls up a stealth fighter jet from the bottom of the South China Sea David Pescovitz

china Price of lithium has quadrupled in a year, but China found a massive deposit near Mount Everest Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Royal scandals, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein's "murder" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

trains New rail line construction makes it possible to take a train from Portugal to Singapore (in just 21 days) Mark Frauenfelder

mainstream republicans In wild talk, Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Fauci paid China to create Covid, suggests audience should use guns to defend against vaccine workers Mark Frauenfelder

environmental impacts Chinese ships dump so much human waste into the ocean, you can see it from space Carla Sinclair

apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder

dupe Death by firing squad could soon be possible in South Carolina Kevin Reome

tabloids World War 3 and Royals at War in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

dinosaurs Scientists found a fossilized dinosaur sitting on eggs containing fossilized embryos David Pescovitz

china The matrilineal Chinese culture that carries around cured pork for a decades Thom Dunn