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Weird 40,000 bees living rent-free in bedroom wall evicted by chillest beekeeper on earth (video) Popkin

Kids Watch this terrific animated storybook of the Dark Souls video game plot Andrea James

Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal Jason Weisberger

books Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford Ellsworth Toohey

law enforcement What luck, America! Kash Patel's girlfriend joins Trump's talent-fleeing Freedom 250 event Jason Weisberger

professtional sports The cheating wasn't in the rider. It was in the bike Jason Weisberger

Mmmmmuscles Grandpa Pudding Brains gets lost in a cop's muscles Jason Weisberger

movies A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside Séamus Bellamy

Chonkers the Clown Is Grandpa Pudding Brains the mystery patient getting the super-Ozempic? Jason Weisberger

film For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon Ellsworth Toohey

Games Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster Grant St. Clair

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Science Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

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Science A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form Ruben Bolling