History Exclusive interview with Matt LaCroix and Kaedrich Olsen about Gaia's Ancient Civilizations fourth season Devin Nealy

currency Medieval English people used to pay their rent in eels Thom Dunn

prisons These are some of the scariest prisons in history David Pescovitz

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

music Weird Al walks us through his biggest hits Devin Nealy

wikipedia Station Eleven author does an interview just to fix her marital status on Wikipedia Thom Dunn

movies Donald Glover to produce and star in one of those spin-off Spider-Man villain movies Sony keeps insisting we watch Devin Nealy

book review Review: Some New Kind of Kick is the moving memoir of punk rock icon Kid Congo Powers Gareth Branwyn

Games The making of Dune II, the game that put real-time strategy on the map Rob Beschizza

podcasts Podcast about Alex Jones's weird, pre-Infowars history Elías Villoro

misguided hero worship Musk fanboys create $600k monument to their hero Jennifer Sandlin

ai art Illustrator discovers her art was used to train an AI art generator Mark Frauenfelder

books Toil and Trouble: a brief history of women using the occult as a form of resistance Thom Dunn

cults "Good Cult" podcast explores the Lifespring movement Jennifer Sandlin

documentaries New documentary about the 1990s Athens, Georgia underground music scene Jennifer Sandlin

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sports In odd tribute, World Boxing Council makes a Queen Elizabeth II title belt Devin Nealy

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

music The Pavement museum exhibition is real even if it's "sort of a joke" Jennifer Sandlin

HDSF New BB series! "Updating the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction" Jesse Sheidlower