books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow

Science In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon. Ellsworth Toohey

movies Spider-Man continues to do the things only a spider can in the new trailer for the latest "Spider-Man" movie Grant St. Clair

gadgets HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form Rob Beschizza

animals In a Honduran town, fish appear on the ground after every major rainstorm Ellsworth Toohey

Food The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread Ellsworth Toohey

Science Cold-water espresso cuts energy use 75% and tastes identical Ellsworth Toohey

criminals Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly finds her mean-girls table in prison Jason Weisberger

robots Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest? Gail Sherman

comedy Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration Grant St. Clair

gadgets CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse Rob Beschizza

politics Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden Rob Beschizza

movies Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour Rob Beschizza

growth Grandpa Pudding Brains algae-filled improvements Jason Weisberger

mystery A ship found drifting in the Pacific was still afloat but all 25 passengers had vanished Ellsworth Toohey

aviation A Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone Ellsworth Toohey

History A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home Ellsworth Toohey

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