books "Weird Ireland" offers a wonderfully whimsical tour of the Emerald Isle Thom Dunn

video Look at this delightfully weird photo-in-photo stop motion masterpiece Popkin

mistakes Forest resort chain Center Parcs learns why you don't just delete your account Rob Beschizza

Weird Mystery humming noise in Ireland town causing "significant degree of discomfort" for residents David Pescovitz

History When the Black & Tans left Ireland for Palestine Thom Dunn

mcdonalds Did McDonald's change their Shamrock Shake mascot because of the IRA? Thom Dunn

delightful bugs Meet the cockchafer Jennifer Sandlin

museums Cork has an entire museum dedicated to butter, and it's weirdly wonderful Thom Dunn

halloween Bring back the Halloween tradition of throwing cabbage at people Thom Dunn

mermaids A brief history of what we think mermaids might look like Thom Dunn

music Strange art-band alert: Monsieur Pompier's Travelling Freakshow Rusty Blazenhoff

spotify Spotify's "Wrapped" data doesn't add up. Here's how to convert to Bandcamp. Thom Dunn

performance art "The Moon Made Me Sh!t My Pants" — an improvised Red Dead Redemption 2 Musical Thom Dunn

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

Business Consortium of the largest science funders in Europe announce that they'll only fund open access research Cory Doctorow

happy mutants How to Win Friends and Convince People to Watch Eurovision Catherynne Valente

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

art The story of Traceroute, about a Leitnerd's quest Thomas Kaestle

game of thrones Death—and dragons—stalk the powerful in Game of Thrones Chris Weitz