The Human Use Of Human Beings Techno-social engineering is freaking insiders out Scott Allan Morrison

slavery As Nottoway "Plantation & Resort" burns, it's a great time to remind you that plantation weddings are wrong, period Jennifer Sandlin

Science Company markets "T. Rex leather" made with fossilized collagen Gail Sherman

psychology How an 1800s French doctor's experiments with electrocuted faces revealed science of real smiles Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Dyson Trees could make a home for humans—and other things Rob Beschizza

AI I interviewed the AI ghost of a famous dead porn star Thom Dunn

humor Academics study programmers in hunt to understand their sense of humor Rob Beschizza

israel Manufactured "Israeli-Palestinian" boy band is in really poor taste Thom Dunn

politics Actual climate scientists debunk Marjorie Taylor Greene's weather-related conspiracy theories Jennifer Sandlin

mistakes The Unofficial Apple Weblog returns as plagiarized hyperslop Rob Beschizza

Delightful Creatures The whale-wide web of undersea song Roy Christopher

gender A brief history of drag in the military Thom Dunn

Technology Humans becoming whales in the Internet's digital ocean Roy Christopher

louisiana Louisiana reintroduces the electric chair, adds nitrogen hypoxia to execution methods Natalie Dressed

tinder IDF soldiers using selfies from Gaza on Tinder Natalie Dressed

halloween New research reveals why people are afraid of clowns Jennifer Sandlin

Funny Amazingly bizarre food collage advertisements from 1950s Popkin

Science Evidence of hominins building wooden structures half a million years ago Ruben Bolling

trans These real-life stories of trans teen athletes are incredibly mundane, and that's awesome Thom Dunn

podcasts "The Immortals" is a podcast about Silicon Valley billionaires spending loads of money trying to stay young indefinitely Jennifer Sandlin