terrible Louisiana school teacher fed sperm-laced cupcakes to her students Jason Weisberger

ghostbusters "It might have been Mama Cass": Dan Aykroyd shares real ghost story Séamus Bellamy

Nature This four-minute video is the most intense nature documentary I have ever seen Gail Sherman

gadgets Retrospective of the Bic Cristal pen Rob Beschizza

china Inside Qingdao's authentic German quarter: A colonial legacy in modern China Séamus Bellamy

NASA The tiny, secret art museum we sent to the moon — and how it got there Ellsworth Toohey

thailand Elephant chained for 41 years finally tastes freedom at Thai sanctuary (video) Jennifer Sandlin

colorado Denver residents renew legal battle over stinky Purina pet food plant Jason Weisberger

politics Target's bleakly invisible Pride Month fashions suggest the wrong kind of closet Rob Beschizza

Games New horror game lets AI clone your voice to terrorize friends Grant St. Clair

economics Bruised peaches: things that are too good to be true Mark Frauenfelder

library Faith in humanity restored — young library patron replaces missing stuffed animal Gail Sherman

Games Borderlands boss defends $80 price tag, says "real fans" will "find a way to make it happen" Grant St. Clair

oceanography New footage reveals chilling moment Titan submersible imploded during Titanic dive Gail Sherman

Weird Comedian lands two scummy sales jobs at the same time to troll exploitative companies Grant St. Clair

music The "Happy Birthday" song like a funeral dirge — we can do better Mark Frauenfelder

AI Google expands access to its awful LLM Jason Weisberger

movies Watch tech bros plot mankind's doom in HBO's Mountainhead Grant St. Clair

movies Alex Garland's Warfare is an anti-action movie Séamus Bellamy