artists Artist Chris Kenny photographed 12 twigs that look like little dancing people Popkin

animals This inchworm is so small it looks like an eyelash crawling across someone's arm Popkin

cute "An adorable conveyor belt": Watch these opossums use their prehensile tails to gather nesting materials Jennifer Sandlin

france Carved leaves made by soldiers in the trenches Natalie Dressed

carrion crow Another reason why crows are cool: they make nests out of anti-bird spikes Mark Frauenfelder

dancing bugs Watch these Boogie Woogie Aphids getting down! Jennifer Sandlin

art Emeric Chantier's Surreal Plant Sculptures Popkin

law Hooters manager beaten in fight over kids selling chocolate bars in restaurant Rob Beschizza

biology Watch digger bees build sandcastles on California beaches David Pescovitz

The terrible origin of the term "whipping boy" Popkin

danny elfman "Sorry," Danny Elfman's latest evokes "alien orchestral chamber punk" Rusty Blazenhoff

Nature Enjoy the relaxing sounds of these cute chonky beavers eating bark and chomping on leaves in a pond Xeni Jardin

dupe Kayaker who spelled out HELP with sticks was rescued by NYPD helicopter Carla Sinclair

art African birds create massive colonies on utility poles Andrea James

Science This orchid has at least 7 camouflaged predators on it Andrea James

analytical engines Logic gates made purely of joints and levers Clive Thompson

music 'Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché' – Last chance to back biopic on '70s female punk icon of X-Ray Spex fame Xeni Jardin

History Satirist Paul Thomas mixes fiction with facts in An Unreliable History of Tattoos Wink

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

music Winner of our 2015 Treasure Island Music Festival haiku contest! David Pescovitz