cartoons Wait 'til you get a load of Tim Curry's version of the animated Joker Devin Nealy

dinosaurs That time Tim Curry played the Devil on an episode of "Dinosaurs" Thom Dunn

movies Tim Curry laughing in movies Rob Beschizza

Science Cockroach wins battle with hydraulic press Popkin

politics U.S.A running out of pandas Rob Beschizza

spiders Look at this 16-million-year-old "giant" spider found in Australia David Pescovitz

delightful creatures Watch: Orangutan flings possum out of its home like an Ultimate Frisbee champ (video) Carla Sinclair

cryptocurrency People who paid a fortune for Bored Apes are now suing Sotheby's, Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber, and others as NFT prices plummet Mark Frauenfelder

heat waves Death of a Death Valley Hiker Mark Frauenfelder

california Sewage to be recycled into drinking water, as California battles drought Jason Weisberger

argentina Adorable rare 'pink fairy' armadillo spotted in the wild Rusty Blazenhoff

Entertainment Barbie's strange promotion of China's expansive territorial claims Ruben Bolling

unruly travelers Privileged United passenger in business class throws fit over meal choice, forcing plane to divert Carla Sinclair

police "Suspicious buses" attempting to pick up children in Virginia David Pescovitz

Grandiloquent Word of the Year 2022 The Grandiloquent Word of the Year for 2022 is "acrasia" Jennifer Sandlin

Japan Old Enough! is the post-pandemic palate cleanser I needed Grant St. Clair

racism What happened at Attica Elías Villoro

bugs in your food Are there wasps in your figs? Jennifer Sandlin

squatters Man pretended to be Stanford student, lived in dorms for a year David Pescovitz